Origine: The principle of organizational invariance. This principle states that any two systems with the same fine-grained functional organization will have qualitatively identical experiences. If the causal patterns of neural organization were duplicated in silicon, for example, with a silicon chip for every neuron and the same patterns of interaction, then the same experiences would arise. According to this principle, what matters for the emergence of experience is not the specific physical makeup of a system, but the abstract pattern of causal interaction between its components.
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Origine: We know that a theory of consciousness requires the addition of something fundamental to our ontology, as everything in physical theory is compatible with the absence of consciousness. We might add some entirely new nonphysical feature, from which experience can be derived, but it is hard to see what such a feature would be like. More likely, we will take experience itself as a fundamental feature of the world, alongside mass, charge, and space-time. If we take experience as fundamental, then we can go about the business of constructing a theory of experience..
Origine: Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain. All sorts of mental phenomena have yielded to scientific investigation in recent years, but consciousness has stubbornly resisted. Many have tried to explain it, but the explanations always seem to fall short of the target.
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David Chalmers libro The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 1995
“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”
David Chalmers libro The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 1995
David Chalmers libro The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
David Chalmers libro The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
David Chalmers libro The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 1995
When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. ...When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. Other experiences go along with perception in different modalities: the sound of a clarinet, the smell of mothballs. Then there are bodily sensations, from pains to orgasms; mental images that are conjured up internally; the felt quality of emotion, and the experience of a stream of conscious thought.
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 1995
