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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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Peter Bieri on Consciousness - Dictionary of Arguments
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._____________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. |
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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20