The Status and Future of Consciousness Research

Frontiers in Psychology

Morten Overgaard¹ 

关键词: consciousness;    consciousness disorders;    measures of consciousness;    neural correlates of consciousness;    artificial consciousness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01719

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

As papers about consciousness are so often introduced, consciousness was until few decades ago considered a philosophical problem only, and the current interest in empirical consciousness research was unforeseen. This development was of course influenced by the technological advancements in neuroscience during those decades, but more important and fundamental was a new openness to interdisciplinary integration of research questions, methods and arguments. Cognitive scientists and neuroscientists agreed that the philosophical problems of why and how there is consciousness are also their problems. Philosophers agreed that empirical evidence may resolve or at least influence this debate. Scientists across disciplines generally agree that consciousness is subjective, characterized by a kind of privileged first-person access.

【 授权许可】

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