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Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness
The hard problem of consciousness has been often claimed to be unsolvable by the methods of traditional empirical sciences. It has been argued that all the objects of empirical sciences can be fully analyzed in structural terms but that consciousness is (or has) something over and above its structur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00237 |
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description | The hard problem of consciousness has been often claimed to be unsolvable by the methods of traditional empirical sciences. It has been argued that all the objects of empirical sciences can be fully analyzed in structural terms but that consciousness is (or has) something over and above its structure. However, modern neuroscience has introduced a theoretical framework in which also the apparently non-structural aspects of consciousness, namely the so called qualia or qualitative properties, can be analyzed in structural terms. That framework allows us to see qualia as something compositional with internal structures that fully determine their qualitative nature. Moreover, those internal structures can be identified which certain neural patterns. Thus consciousness as a whole can be seen as a complex neural pattern that misperceives some of its own highly complex structural properties as monadic and qualitative. Such neural pattern is analyzable in fully structural terms and thereby the hard problem is solved. |
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spelling | pubmed-39574922014-03-26 Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness Loorits, Kristjan Front Psychol Psychology The hard problem of consciousness has been often claimed to be unsolvable by the methods of traditional empirical sciences. It has been argued that all the objects of empirical sciences can be fully analyzed in structural terms but that consciousness is (or has) something over and above its structure. However, modern neuroscience has introduced a theoretical framework in which also the apparently non-structural aspects of consciousness, namely the so called qualia or qualitative properties, can be analyzed in structural terms. That framework allows us to see qualia as something compositional with internal structures that fully determine their qualitative nature. Moreover, those internal structures can be identified which certain neural patterns. Thus consciousness as a whole can be seen as a complex neural pattern that misperceives some of its own highly complex structural properties as monadic and qualitative. Such neural pattern is analyzable in fully structural terms and thereby the hard problem is solved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3957492/ /pubmed/24672510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00237 Text en Copyright © 2014 Loorits. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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) or licensor 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 Loorits, Kristjan Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title | Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title_full | Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title_fullStr | Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title_full_unstemmed | Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title_short | Structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
title_sort | structural qualia: a solution to the hard problem of consciousness |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00237 |
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