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An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports
What are the nature of the relationship among qualia, contents of consciousness, and behavioral reports? Traditionally, this type of question has been only addressed via a qualitative and philosophical approach. Some theorists emphasize an incomplete and inaccurate nature of reports of one's ow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107370/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37077507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053977 |
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author | Tsuchiya, Naotsugu Saigo, Hayato Phillips, Steven |
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description | What are the nature of the relationship among qualia, contents of consciousness, and behavioral reports? Traditionally, this type of question has been only addressed via a qualitative and philosophical approach. Some theorists emphasize an incomplete and inaccurate nature of reports of one's own qualia to discourage formal research programs on qualia. Other empirical researchers, however, have made substantial progress in understanding the structure of qualia from such limited reports. What is the precise relationship between the two? To answer this question, we introduce the concept of “adjoint” or “adjunction” from the category theory in mathematics. We claim that the adjunction captures some aspects of the nuanced relationships between qualia and reports. The concept of adjunction allows us to clarify the conceptual issues with a precise mathematical formulation. In particular, adjunction establishes coherence between two categories that cannot be considered equivalent, yet has an important relationship. This rises in empirical experimental situations between qualia and reports. More importantly, an idea of adjunction naturally leads to various proposals of new empirical experiments to test the predictions about the nature of their relationship as well as other issues in consciousness research. |
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spelling | pubmed-101073702023-04-18 An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports Tsuchiya, Naotsugu Saigo, Hayato Phillips, Steven Front Psychol Psychology What are the nature of the relationship among qualia, contents of consciousness, and behavioral reports? Traditionally, this type of question has been only addressed via a qualitative and philosophical approach. Some theorists emphasize an incomplete and inaccurate nature of reports of one's own qualia to discourage formal research programs on qualia. Other empirical researchers, however, have made substantial progress in understanding the structure of qualia from such limited reports. What is the precise relationship between the two? To answer this question, we introduce the concept of “adjoint” or “adjunction” from the category theory in mathematics. We claim that the adjunction captures some aspects of the nuanced relationships between qualia and reports. The concept of adjunction allows us to clarify the conceptual issues with a precise mathematical formulation. In particular, adjunction establishes coherence between two categories that cannot be considered equivalent, yet has an important relationship. This rises in empirical experimental situations between qualia and reports. More importantly, an idea of adjunction naturally leads to various proposals of new empirical experiments to test the predictions about the nature of their relationship as well as other issues in consciousness research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10107370/ /pubmed/37077507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053977 Text en Copyright © 2023 Tsuchiya, Saigo and Phillips. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tsuchiya, Naotsugu Saigo, Hayato Phillips, Steven An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title | An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title_full | An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title_fullStr | An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title_full_unstemmed | An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title_short | An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
title_sort | adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107370/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37077507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053977 |
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