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Reply to Rourk, C. Comment on “Albantakis et al. Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism. Entropy 2023, 25, 449”
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The monoid-now: a category theoretic approach to the structure of phenomenological time-consciousness
1. Introduction “Time” has played an important role in human recognition of the self and the world, which has developed since ancient times, especially in philosophy and religion. Among the various theories of time developed in history, Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology provides a unique interpretation of how time is experienced.
Consciousness, 4E cognition and Aristotle: a few conceptual and historical aspects
Introduction This is a conceptual and historical analysis suggesting that new scientific studies on the neurophysiological phenomena and the neural network dynamics related to consciousness can be better explained and understood within an interdisciplinary context inspired by the new 4E cognition (embodied/embedded/enactive/extended) views. These scientific and cognitive/philosophical approaches are deeply related and can support each other in the study of consciousness.
Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism
Abstract : Originally conceived as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT) provides a theoretical framework intended to characterize the compositional causal information that a system, in its current state, specifies about itself. However, it remains to be determined whether IIT as a theory of consciousness is compatible with quantum mechanics as a theory of microphysics.
Consciousness may not require a brain | Annaka Harris
Our default intuition when it comes to consciousness is that humans and some other animals have it, whereas plants and trees don’t. But how sure can we be that plants aren’t conscious? And what if what we take to be behavior indicating consciousness can be replicated with no conscious agent involved? Annaka Harris invites us to consider the real possibility that our intuitions about consciousness might be mere illusions.
Spacetime is not fundamental | Donald D. Hoffman
Since at least Einstein we have seen spacetime as fundamental. But modern physics, from quantum field theory to gravity, now suggests spacetime is doomed. So, what lies beyond spacetime? We, ourselves, might be part of the answer, writes Donald D. Hoffman. Who am I? If I glance in a mirror, I appear as a body, as one object among scores in space and time. I feel myself to be immersed in space and time.
Fact, Fiction, and Fitness
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