Locating consciousness / / Valerie Gray Hardcastle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824049803321
• Autore: Hardcastle Valerie Gray
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1995
• ISBN: 1-283-12189-1; 9786613121899; 90-272-8491-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Collana: Advances in consciousness research, , 1381-589X ; ; v. 4
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetti: Consciousness; Philosophy of mind; Human information processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LOCATING CONSCIOUSNESS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Naturalism about Subjective Experience Chapter One; 1.1. What the Mind Is Not; 1.2. The Naturalists Versus the Skeptics; The Limits of Theory Chapter Two; 2.1. Theory and Observation; 2.2. Inverted Spectra; Consciousness as a Natural Kind Chapter Three; 3.1. Explanations and Causal Histories; 3.2. Qualia as Explananda; 3.3. Promissory Notes; A Multiple Memory System Framework Chapter Four; 4.1. Converging Evidence for Two Independent Memory Systems; 4.1.1. Neurobiological Evidence for Two Memory Systems4.1.2 Infants, Amnesics, and the Dual Memory System Hypothesis; 4.1.3. Characterizing the Two Memory Systems; 4.2. Priming; 4.2.1. Word Completion and Perceptual Identification Tasks; 4.2.2. Properties of Explicit Memory; 4.3. Tripartite Memory; Conscious Perception and Semantic Memory Chapter Five; 5.1. Perception and Memory; 5.2 The Case of SB; 5.3. The Consciousness of Others; 5.3.1. The Location of Consciousness; 5.3.2. Infant and Amnesic Consciousness; 5.3.3. Animal Consciousness; How Do We Get There From Here?Chapter Six; 6.1. Marr''s Paradox6.2. A Brief and Potted History; 6.3. Psychology''s ; Binding Problem; 6.4. The Problem of Perception in Neuroscience; 6.4.1. The Addition of Time; 6.4.2. One Possible Neurobiological ''''Solution""; 6.4.3. Problems with Neuroscience''s ''''Solution""; 6.5. A Different Approach; 6.5.1. Bifurcating Dynamical Systems; 6.5.2. Binding Solutions Revisited; 6.6. Consciousness as System-Dynamic Oscillations; Martian Pain and the Problem of Absent Qualia Chapter Seven; 7.1 Supervenience and Absent Qualia; 7.2 An Argument Against Absent Qualia; 7.2.1. The Parochial Assignment of Meaning7.2.2. A Scientific Assignment of Meaning; 7.3. Epiphenomenalism Again; 7.4. A ""Maximally Good"" Cognitive Definition; ""Executive"" Processing and Consciousness as Structure Chapter Eight; 8.1. An Outline of the ""Executive"" Theories; 8.2 The Neurophysiological Evidence; 8.2.1. The Frontal Lobe as an Executive Processor; 8.2.2. The Relationship Between Consciousness and U; 8.2.3. Consciousness as a Global Broadcaster; 8.2.4. Difficulties With Higher Level Theories of Consciousness; 8.3 Consciousness as a Decomposition; The Moment of Consciousness Chapter Nine9.1. The Problem with Psychological Techniques; 9.2. ERPs, Priming, and Temporal Windows; 9.2.1. Unmasked Semantic Priming; 9.2.2. Masked Priming; 9.2.3. Priming with Novel Visual Stimuli; 9.3. Conclusion: Mind as Brain; NOTES; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a central decision-making system. Instead, consciousness is viewed as a lower level dynamical structure underpinning our information processing. This new perspective affords novel solutions to a wide range of problems: the absent qualia, the binding problem, the inverted spectra, the specter of epiphenom