Sensing Qualia

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Paul Skokowski² 

[1] St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;Symbolic Systems, Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford, CA, United States;

关键词: qualia;    consciousness;    integrated information theory;    sensation;    functionalism;    identity theory;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnsys.2022.795405

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Accounting for qualia in the natural world is a difficult business, and it is worth understanding why. A close examination of several theories of mind—Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism, and Integrated Information Theory—will be discussed, revealing shortcomings for these theories in explaining the contents of conscious experience: qualia. It will be argued that in order to overcome the main difficulty of these theories the senses should be interpreted as physical detectors. A new theory, Grounded Functionalism, will be proposed, which retains multiple realizability while allowing for a scientifically based approach toward accounting for qualia in the natural world.

【 授权许可】

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