scholarly journals Consciousness as Generative Entanglement

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. 645-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Clark ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Computational Neuroscience ◽  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
Perception Action ◽  
Shed Light

Recent work in cognitive and computational neuroscience depicts the human brain as a complex, multi-layer prediction engine. This family of models has had great success in accounting for a wide variety of phenomena involving perception, action, and attention. But despite their clear promise as accounts of the neurocomputational origins of perceptual experience, they have not yet been leveraged so as to shed light on the so-called “hard problem” of consciousness—the problem of explaining why and how the world is subjectively experienced at all, and why those experiences seem just the way they do. To address this issue, I motivate and defend a picture of conscious experience as flowing from “generative entanglements” that mix predictions about the world, the body, and (crucially) our own reactive dispositions.

Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-342
Author(s):  
Valia Allori
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hard Problem ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

Quantum mechanics is a groundbreaking theory: it not only is extraordinarily empirically adequate but also is claimed to having shattered the classical paradigm of understanding the observer-observed distinction as well as the part-whole relation. This, together with other quantum features, has been taken to suggest that quantum theory can help one understand the mind-body relation in a unique way, in particular to solve the hard problem of consciousness along the lines of panpsychism. In this chapter, after having briefly presented panpsychism, Valia Allori discusses the main features of quantum theories and the way in which the main quantum theories of consciousness use them to account for conscious experience.

scholarly journals Природные материалы в соматических представлениях тюркских и монгольских народов Внутренней Азии

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-302
Author(s):  
Marina M. Sodnompilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Soft Clay ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

The aim of this article is to analyze traditional somatic ideas of the Turkic-Mongolians of Inner Asia that they formed as a part of their “theories” on the origin of the world and man. Data and methods. An important part of the studies of man as a social and biological being is the investigation of the human body conceptualizations of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples. When explored, the ideas that traditional societies had on the human body and its constituent parts, such as organs, muscles, and blood may give an important clue to understanding traditional medicine methods, attitudes towards the body, and the body potentialities. In this respect, one cannot overestimate the relevance of the nomads’ folklore texts dealing with the origin of the world and man as a research source. A variety of such stories relating how man was made of clay, wood, metal, bone, and stone may shed light on the invention and development of new materials by man, as well as on the technologies they used for their processing. The study is based on a comparative historical method that helps to identify commonalities characteristic of the Turkic-Mongolian world in understanding the human body; as well as the method of cultural and historical reconstruction, which gives an insight into the logic of archaic views. Conclusions. In the somatic conceptualizations of the Turkic-Mongolians, the key and stable correspondences of the natural and the human are such series as bone – wood, flesh – clay/earth /stone form. The associations of the human body and its parts with metals manifest to a lesser degree. The processes of maturing and aging of the human body were conceptualized by traditional societies in terms of both natural and cultural phenomena, such as the life cycles of a tree and ceramics making of raw/soft clay hardened in the process of its firing.

scholarly journals Human Development IX: A Model of the Wholeness of Man, His Consciousness, and Collective Consciousness

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1454-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Tyge Dahl Hermansen ◽  
Trine Flensborg-Madsen ◽  
Erik Rald ◽  
Maj Lyck Nielsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chemistry ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Brain

In this paper we look at the rational and the emotional interpretation of reality in the human brain and being, and discuss the representation of the brain-mind (ego), the body-mind (Id), and the outer world in the human wholeness (the I or “soul”). Based on this we discuss a number of factors including the coherence between perception, attention and consciousness, and the relation between thought, fantasies, visions and dreams. We discuss and explain concepts as intent, will, morals and ethics. The Jungian concept of the human collective conscious and unconscious is also analyzed. We also hypothesis on the nature of intuition and consider the source of religious experience of man. These phenomena are explained based on the concept of deep quantum chemistry and infinite dancing fractal spirals making up the energetic backbone of the world. In this paper we consider man as a real wholeness and debate the concepts of subjectivity, consciousness and intent that can be deduced from such a perspective.

scholarly journals The Body Surpassed Towards the World and Perception Surpassed Towards Action: A Comparison between Enactivism and Sartre’s Phenomenology

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-99
Author(s):  
Federico Zilio
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perception Action

Enactivism maintains that the mind is not produced and localized inside the head but is distributed along and through brain-body-environment interactions. This idea of an intrinsic relationship between the agent and the world derives from the classical phenomenological investigations of the body (Merleau-Ponty in particular). This paper discusses similarities and differences between enactivism and Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenology, which is not usually considered as a paradigmatic example of the relationship between phenomenological investigations and enactivism (or 4E theories in general). After a preliminary analysis of the three principal varieties of enactivism (sensorimotor, autopoietic and radical), I will present Sartre’s account of the body, addressing some key points that can be related to the current enactivist positions: perception-action unity, anti-representationalism, anti-internalism, organism-environment interaction, and sense-making cognition. Despite some basic similarities, enactivism and Sartre’s phenomenology move in different directions as to how these concepts are developed. Nevertheless, I will suggest that Sartre’s phenomenology is useful to the enactivist approaches to provide a broader and more complete analysis of consciousness and cognition, by developing a pluralist account of corporeality, enriching the investigation of the organism-environment coupling through an existentialist perspective, and reincluding the concept of subjectivity without the hypostatisation of an I-subject detached from body and world.

Expérimenter la pensée en schémas-images. Des adolescents s’interrogent « d’où viennent les pensées ? »

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2 supplement) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Anda Fournel ◽  
Jean-Pascal Simon
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Philosophy For Children ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

"Experimenting Thinking in Image Schemas. Teenagers are Wondering “Where Do Thoughts Come From?” An intellectual view of philosophy as an activity focusing on understanding abstract concepts and their relationships deprives philosophical exercise of the participation of the body and senses. If we reject the mind-body dualism, as Dewey, Johnson, etc. did, then we are constantly engaged in interactions with the world and others, and can thus consider the act of thinking from our own experiences. Inspired by an experimentalist conception of school and life, as well as the method of inquiry developed by Dewey, the Philosophy for Children program provides an inquiry process that invites participants to conceptualize and reason philosophically in a collaborative manner. Do these practices implement an embodied cognition? To find out, we selected a discussion as a case study and analyzed it based on the observation that the issue to be discussed by the participants - “where do thoughts come from?” contains two image schemas: path (come from) and source (where). We have noted a variety and a significant number of expressions (“they come from within”, “they come from what happens outside”, etc.) whose analysis enhances a better understanding of how an experience of understanding the origins of our thoughts fits into the discourse and contributes to a collective conceptualization of “thinking”. Keywords: image schemas, perceptual experience, conceptualisation, community of philosophical inquiry, experimentalism "

The Horizonal Structure of Perceptual Experience

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-141
Author(s):  
Carleton B. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intentional Content ◽  
John Mcdowell ◽  
Philosophy Of Perception ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Subject

Edmund Husserl’s account of the horizonal character of simple, sensuous perception provides a sophisticated account of perceptual intentional content which enables plausible responses to key issues in the philosophy of perception and in Heidegger interpretation. Section 2 outlines Husserl’s account of intentionality in its application to such perceptual experience. Section 3 then elaborates the notion of perceptual horizon in order to draw out, in Section 4, its implications for four issues: firstly, the relation between the object perceived and perceptual appearance (qua item “in consciousness”); secondly, the relation between the subject perceiving and perceptual appearance; thirdly, what sense of the body is inherent to perceptual experience of the horizonal kind; and fourthly, what John McDowell is getting at when he claims that traditional conceptions fail to capture how perception puts us in cognitive contact with the world. The paper concludes by using the interpretation developed to show how Husserl’s account of perceptual experience as horizonal enables one to draw out the sense and worth of what Heidegger means by worldliness and the “Da” of Dasein.

scholarly journals The Primacy of the Perceptual Experience in Maurice Merleau-Ponty

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Alessandro Ballabio
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Synthesis

Le primat de la perception et ses conséquences philosophiques (1946) is the transcription of the discussion that Merleau-Ponty had on November 23, 1946, at the Société française de Philosophie on the results of Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). Merleau-Ponty states that perception is not an intellectual but a practical synthesis that implies the movement of the body, as the origin of the perceptual experience of the world.

Deep Learning in Computational Neuroscience

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Sanjay Saxena ◽  
Sudip Paul ◽  
Adhesh Garg ◽  
Angana Saikia ◽  
Amitava Datta
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Computational Neuroscience ◽  
Deep Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Scenario

Computational neuroscience is inspired by the mechanism of the human brain. Neural networks have reformed machine learning and artificial intelligence. Deep learning is a type of machine learning that teaches computers to do what comes naturally to individuals: acquire by example. It is inspired by biological brains and became the essential class of models in the field of machine learning. Deep learning involves several layers of computation. In the current scenario, researchers and scientists around the world are focusing on the implementation of different deep models and architectures. This chapter consists the information about major architectures of deep network. That will give the information about convolutional neural network, recurrent neural network, multilayer perceptron, and many more. Further, it discusses CNN (convolutional neural network) and its different pretrained models due to its major requirements in visual imaginary. This chapter also deliberates about the similarity of deep model and architectures with the human brain.

scholarly journals The moral dimension in the management of money and prophetic works: البعد الأخلاقي في إدارة المال والأعمال النبوية

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayel abd al mawla tashtoush
Keyword(s):  
Business Management ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Science Of Management

This study aims to clarify and explain the role of the Prophet in establishing and consolidating the rules and foundations of the science of management in general and business administration in particular, and the reason is the belief of many researchers throughout the world that the establishment of the State of the city and the management of the Prophet peace be upon him was random and Based on the basis of knowledge or scientific, so this study came to clarify the matter and revelation; and focuses on the moral aspect of business management, because of the importance of ethics and its necessity in dealing with people and events and this is the body of the Holy Prophet during the various stages of building and NH Medina. The importance of this study stems from the fact that it will shed light on the importance of ethics and its effective role in the success and progress of the science of management in general and the management of business in particular.  

Sameness of place and the senses

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-230
Author(s):  
Alisa Mandrigin ◽  
Matthew Nudds
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Peripersonal Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Single Location ◽  
The World ◽  
Multisensory Information ◽  
Content Of Experience

When we watch a film at the cinema, we typically experience the speech we hear as coming from the mouths of the actors depicted on the screen, rather than from the loudspeakers. This is an everyday example of the spatial ventriloquism effect. In this chapter, we are interested in what it is for things that we are aware of through different senses to appear to be in a single space, or even—as in spatial ventriloquism—at the same place. The answer may seem trivial: all that is required is that we pick out places in the different senses in the same way. However, as Millikan (1991, 2000) has argued, representing a single location in the same way is not the same as representing sameness of location. What we need, either instead of, or as well as, sameness of reference frame, is for sameness of place to be a part of the content of experience. Empirical evidence suggests that there exist peripersonal representations that encode multisensory information about the region of space that immediately surrounds the body. Their existence generates a puzzle for accounts of perception—namely, what is the relation between peripersonal representations that figure in empirical discussions and our everyday perceptual experience of ourselves and the world? Here we examine whether peripersonal space representations might play a role in our conscious awareness of the spatial relations between entities experienced in vision, audition, and touch.

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