Tag: Evolutionary consciousness research

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2023

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Anil Seth, Anil Seth (on Hard Problem of consciousness), Anil Seth on Koch-Chalmers wager, Beast machine theory of consciousness (Seth), Being You (book Dutton 2021), Christof Koch, David Chalmers, Evolutionary consciousness research, James Pang, Koch-Chalmers Wager, Ruairi J Mackenzie, Sònia Hernández}

Neuroscientist vows post-wager: We’ll nail consciousness yet!

_{Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 25, 2023

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Prominent University of Sussex neuroscientist Anil Seth shared some thoughts at Nautilus on neuroscientist Christof Koch losing the 1998 wager with philosopher David Chalmers this year. He had bet that a consciousness spot or circuit would be found in the human brain within the next 25 years. It wasn’t. Seth offers, Back in the late 1990s, consciousness science was full of renewed promise. Koch—a natural optimist—believed that 25 years was more than enough time for scientists to uncover the neural correlates of consciousness: those patterns of brain activity that underlie each and every one of our conscious experiences. – Anil Seth, “Finding the Neural Correlates to Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet,” Nautilus, July 5, 2023 As author of Being Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
June 28, 2022

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

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Aristotle in Ginsburg and Jablonka's work, Consciousness (Darwinian account), Consciousness evolution, Consciousness origin, Darwinism and evolution of consciousness, Ed Feser (on abstract thought), Eva Jablonka, Evolutionary consciousness research, Featured, Infinity and immaterial mind, Intentionality (as trait of consciousness), Intentionality and materialism, Perfection and immaterial mind, Picturing the Mind (book), Reason as inherently immaterial, Simona Ginsburg}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness} _{Michael Egnor

June 28, 2022

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Philosophy of Mind}

Evolutionary biology is a veritable geyser of story-telling. “Just-so stories” is the term evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould used to describe the many fables that biologists concoct to account for the astonishing specified complexity of living things. Of these Darwinian fables that plague evolutionary science, neuroscientist and developmental biologist Emily Casanova has noted, While modern [evolutionary] hypotheses may seem a little less far-fetched [than children’s fairy tales], they are no less fanciful—in part because modern scientists are sometimes so focused on “What adaptive advantage could this trait possible give?” rather than determining how said trait could have arisen and been passed down by other means. In addition, so often these hypotheses are untestable, so in actuality they’re not even “hypotheses”. Read More ›