@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024},
author = {Bieri,Peter},
subject = {Consciousness},
note = {I 65ff
Consciousness/Leibniz/Bieri: it is the factory as a whole which is responsible for consciousness.
>Thought experiments.
I 66/67
Consciousness/Bieri: not laws are the problem, certainly there are some. - Problem: why they exist, what in the brain makes it necessary that a person experiences anything? - Unlike gravity: consciousness is a system property.
Cf. >Consciousness/Chalmers, >Knowing how/Chalmers, >Experience/Chalmers.
I 61
Consciousness/Bieri: is no uniform phenomenon. Inner drive, inner control, awareness, sensitivity ability (in any case not the same as self-awareness).
>Awareness, >Sensations, >Experience, cf. >Self-Consciousness.
Discriminative behavior, appropriate to a situation, coherent over a period of time, "integrated".
Some mental states are verbalizable, others are not.
>Mental states.
Consciousness in the cognitive sense, however, does not appear to be something intellectual that is impenetrable.
>Cognition, >Thinking.
I 64
Experience/Riddle: the experience is the mystery, not its representation.
Consciousness/du Bois Reymond: "cannot be explained from its material conditions".
>Representation.
BieriVsdu Bois-Reymond: why should it be? - Thesis: it is also not explained by the material conditions, if we know (which we do not now) all the material conditions.
>Emergence, >Explanation.
Consciousness/Leibniz: it is the "factory as a whole" that is responsible for consciousness.
I 74
Explanation/Bieri: it always means revealing a certain kind of relationship.
Cf. >Causal explanation, >Causal relation, >Causality.
Puzzle/consciousness/Bieri: we have no idea what would be a solution, an understanding.
>Understanding
But it would be very strange if there was a special relationship here, which does not exist anywhere else. (VsMcGinn).
>Consciousness/McGinn.
If there were a being that shows us this strange relationship, we would not understand it, we could not comprehend it.},
note = { Bieri I Peter Bieri Was macht Bewusstsein zu einem Rätsel? In Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996 Bieri III P. Bieri Analytische Philosophie des Geistes Weinheim 2007
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