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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._____________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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Michael Pauen on Consciousness - Dictionary of Arguments
Pauen I 20 Consciousness/Pauen: can be considered as a property. A property of conditions that can also occur without exemplifying this property. >Exemplification, >States, >Properties, cf. >Identity theory, >Thinking, >Brain, >Brain states. I 21 Problem: there is nothing that could be "something like" consciousness, so that you always have to rely on the property itself, if you want to define it. >Definitions, >Definability, >Comparisons, >Comparability, >Similarity, >Method, >Intentionality. I 213 Perception/self-consciousness/Computer/Pauen: a computer that wanted to perceive itself might try to scan its parts - even if it had consciousness, it could not (using his only sense organs) in this way notice his own consciousness. >Self-consciousness, >Self-knowledge, >Self-identification, >Artificial consciousness, >Thinking, >World/thinking, >Perception, >Knowledge._____________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. |
Pauen I M. Pauen Grundprobleme der Philosophie des Geistes Frankfurt 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16