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The theory explains how systems relate internally, not how experience appears. What question is quietly left unanswered? https://dualisticunity.com/what-integrated-information-theory-suggests-about-consciousness-and-why-it-still-cant-explain-experience/
🔛 Are there limits to our understanding of consciousness? 🧠 When discussing the so-called “hard problem of consciousness,” one thing becomes clear: no matter how much we measure, scan, and analyze the brain, we can only ever detect neural processes, never the mind itself. And when we turn inward, we experience consciousness directly, but without any trace of neurons. This insurmountable duality of mind and brain is reminiscent of a realization already formulated by Werner Heisenberg: there are limits that we cannot transcend with logic and imagination. Just as waves and particles are two incompatible but equally necessary descriptions, the relationship between brain and mind also seems to mark such an epistemological boundary. In our Zoomposium with Gerhard Roth, we discuss precisely this tension: Is there an “explanatory gap” between neural processes and subjective experience? Must we accept that consciousness can never be completely reduced to brain functions? And what does this mean for our view of humanity, for AI, and for the future of brain research? A conversation at the boundary of what we can know—and perhaps also need to know that we cannot know. 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/ 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
Science can describe consciousness—but why does experience itself remain unreachable? https://dualisticunity.com/what-integrated-information-theory-suggests-about-consciousness-and-why-it-still-cant-explain-experience/
The Hard Problem of Consciousness 🧠 - why does consciousness exist at all ✨, and how can it be explained?
David Chalmers' answer with the “philosophical zombies” 🧟♂️ remains unsatisfactory – but the question remains fundamental. Heisenberg already wrote that physics forces us to acknowledge incompatible findings.
In a Zoomposium interview with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Roth, we discuss the “hard problem,” the nature of consciousness, and the limits of neuroscience.
📺 Watch the interview: youtube.com/watch?v=0LG4gU_jfik
📎 More in the blog: philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
Is the body key to understanding consciousness? | Consciousness | The Guardian
"Is the body key to understanding consciousness?", The Guardian asks
Is the body key to understanding consciousness? | Consciousness | The Guardian Illustration by Paul Tansley/Observer Design. In all the years now spanning more than a decade of fairly concerted personal study of consciousness and all the phenomena by which it expresses, I’ve arrived at that hypothesis as well, i.e. that you can’t think consciousness without taking the entire body into greater…
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Great piece on consciousness
This might be the best-written, most intedisciplinary summary I’ve ever read on the debate on consciousness throughout history.
Written by the female scientist-artist who I now greatly admire, Margaret Wertheim.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-and-why-exactly-did-consciousness-become-a-problem
How exactly did consciousness become a problem? And why, after years off the table, is it a hot research subject now?
Some quotes:
“Just as art became literal rather than iconic with the advent of modern science, our concept of a moral universe became subject to homogenisation, and finally to a kind of erasure.
Once we take our universe to be a mathematical arena, a question arises as to where in this scheme the realm of the soul might be found”
“For while Descartes championed mathematical science as a way forward for understanding the physical world, as a Catholic, he also insisted on the reality of the Christian soul. Hence his famous dualism, with its two domains of being: the res extensa (the extended realm of matter in motion), and the res cogitans (the realm of thoughts, feelings, emotions and moral action).”
“Henry James, Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka propel us into the unique sensibilities of their protagonists. James, whose writing has been likened to a literary version of impressionism, was deeply interested in representing the consciousness of his characters, while his brother, the psychologist and philosopher William James, gave us the term ‘stream of consciousness’ to describe the flow of thoughts, feelings and ideas that ramble through our minds. James coined this term in his book The Principles of Psychology (1890), and in the early decades of the 20th century it came to be associated with such quintessentially modernist writers as James Joyce.”
“With the advent of quantum mechanics they found that, in order to make sense of what their theories were saying about the subatomic world, they had to posit that the scientist-observer was actively involved in constructing reality. At the subatomic level, reality appeared to be a subjective flow in which objects sometimes behave like particles and other times like waves. Which facet is manifest depends on how the human observer is looking at the situation.”
“Forty years ago, the American theoretical physicist John Wheeler proposed a series of thought experiments to test if an observer could affect whether light behaved as a particle or a wave and, in 2007, the French physicist Alain Aspect proved that they could. Just this April, Nature Physics reported on a set of experiments showing a similar effect using helium atoms. Andrew Truscott, the Australian scientist who spearheaded the helium work, noted in Physics Today that ‘99.999 per cent of physicists would say that the measurement… brings the observable into reality’. In other words, human subjectivity is drawing forth the world.”
“This is all thrilling science, yet a question remains: will any of it explainsubjective experience? Chalmers, the philosopher, claims that the problem of experience is not mechanistically reducible and he argues that it will ‘persist even when the performance of all the relevant functions is explained’. In other words, he says, no amount of detail about neuronal potentials and interconnection is going to get us to the essence of subjectivity.Plenty of neuroscientists, physicists and philosophers disagree with him, but I’m on his side”
“Neurological and informatic models of subjectivity will no doubt have their uses and values, as did mechanistic models of the world before them. Yet, like their mechanistic forebears, these theories are grounded in an insistence that subjectivity is a secondary phenomenon whose explanation resides in something prior. Chalmers wants to insist, along with Descartes and Locke before him, on the primacy of subjective experience or, as the philosopher Bitbol puts it, ‘that consciousness is existentially primary’.”
How does any activity or process in the brain result in an inner personal experience? Why doesn’t it all go on in the dark, without any awareness? The philosopher David Chalmers has dubbed this the “hard problem” of consciousness. How can something as immaterial as consciousness ever arise from something as unconscious as matter?
From the book "The New science and the spiritual reader"
