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Consciousness, philosophy: consciousness ist the experience of differences along with a knowledge about alternatives as opposed to purely automatic responses. See also Intentionality, Identity theory, Other minds, Self-consciousness.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Steven Pinker on Consciousness - Dictionary of Arguments

I 168ff
Consciousness/Gould: an animal has no consciousness.
Human/Julian Jaynes: consciousness appeared late in evolution.
Homer’s Greeks, Hebrews no consciousness.
>Consciousness/Dennett
, >Consciousness/Gould, >Ancient Philosophy, >Consciousness.
Dennett: consciousness is a product of cultural evolution.
I 170
Pinker: every aspiring programmer can write a self-correcting program, a robot, which recognizes itself in the mirror is not more difficult to construct than one that recognizes anything - ((s) so that is no feature of consciousness).
Information about objects extend over several areas of the brain - so there must be a linkage mechanism.
>Brain/Deacon.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Pi I
St. Pinker
How the Mind Works, New York 1997
German Edition:
Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998


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