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  1. Non-Experiential Evaluation.Jeremy M. Pober - forthcoming - Philosophia:1-10.
    [COMMENTARY on Walter Veit's "A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness"] The framework Veit introduces for animal consciousness turns on finding and articulating its evolutionary origins. Veit argues that consciousness first evolved as affective experience in the Cambrian period. His argument centers around the plausible need of organisms in the Cambrian for a common currency of subjective valuation. I argue that such an adaptive pressure is unlikely to result in affective experience. I review other processes that instantiate common currencies (...)
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  2. The Deep Essence of Consciousness: In Search of Definition. Review of: “The Study of Consciousness Is Mired in Complexities and Difficulties: Can They Be Resolved?”.Alexander Fingelkurts & Andrew and Alexander Fingelkurts - 2024 - Qeios.
    This is a review of the article in which the author attempted to state the long-standing (but often ignored) problem of consciousness definition, in which there are a slew of notions that purport to define the same phenomenon or, conversely, different phenomena labelled with the same notion of consciousness. We think that the felt qualities of our internal, phenomenological experience is exactly the point where the deepest essence of the consciousness phenomenon reveals itself.
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  3. Evolution of Consciousness.Danko D. Georgiev - 2024 - Life 14 (1):48.
    The natural evolution of consciousness in different animal species mandates that conscious experiences are causally potent in order to confer any advantage in the struggle for survival. Any endeavor to construct a physical theory of consciousness based on emergence within the framework of classical physics, however, leads to causally impotent conscious experiences in direct contradiction to evolutionary theory since epiphenomenal consciousness cannot evolve through natural selection. Here, we review recent theoretical advances in describing sentience and free will as fundamental aspects (...)
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  4. Self Consciousness, Representations, Anxiety Management. Past, Present and Future (ISPSM 2023 Web conference).Menant Christophe - manuscript
    We all agree that our human minds are results of primate evolution. We humans are self conscious. The separation of our human lineage from the chimpanzee one began about 7MY ago (pan homo split). Specificities of human self consciousness have been created during that time. Besides interesting approaches differing from the one proposed here [1], little is known about how these specificities came up [2, 3]. We propose here to address that subject with an evolutionary scenario using meaningful representations, identifications (...)
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  5. Consciousness as a Memory System.Andrew E. Budson, Kenneth A. Richman & Elizabeth A. Kensinger - forthcoming - Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology.
    We suggest that there is confusion between why consciousness developed and what additional functions, through continued evolution, it has co-opted. Consider episodic memory. If we believe that episodic memory evolved solely to accurately represent past events, it seems like a terrible system—prone to forgetting and false memories. However, if we believe that episodic memory developed to flexibly and creatively combine and rearrange memories of prior events in order to plan for the future, then it is quite a good system. We (...)
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  6. From the natural brain to the artificial mind.Massimo Negrotti - 2012 - In Liz Swan, Origins of Mind. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 399--409.
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  7. (1 other version)Evolving consciousness : the very idea!James H. Fetzer - 2012 - In Liz Swan, Origins of Mind. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 225--242.
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  8. Everything and More: The Prospects of Whole Brain Emulation.Eric Mandelbaum - 2022 - Journal of Philosophy 119 (8):444-459.
    Whole Brain Emulation has been championed as the most promising, well-defined route to achieving both human-level artificial intelligence and superintelligence. It has even been touted as a viable route to achieving immortality through brain uploading. WBE is not a fringe theory: the doctrine of Computationalism in philosophy of mind lends credence to the in-principle feasibility of the idea, and the standing of the Human Connectome Project makes it appear to be feasible in practice. Computationalism is a popular, independently plausible theory, (...)
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  9. Barry Smith (ed.), John Searle, 2003. [REVIEW]Victor Rodych - 2004 - Philosophy in Review 24 (5):365-367..
  10. On the dangers of conflating strong and weak versions of a theory of consciousness.Matthias Michel & Hakwan Lau - 2020 - Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 1 (II).
    Some proponents of the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness profess strong views on the Neural Correlates of Consciousness, namely that large swathes of the neocortex, the cerebellum, at least some sensory cortices, and the so-called limbic system are all not essential for any form of conscious experiences. We argue that this connection is not incidental. Conflation between strong and weak versions of the theory has led these researchers to adopt definitions of NCC that are inconsistent with their own previous definitions, (...)
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  11. Review of Searle (2008): Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays. [REVIEW]Nicholas Fotion - 2011 - Pragmatics and Cognition 19 (1):117-124.
  12. Somebody is home.Timothy Joseph Lane - 2020 - Cognitive Neuropsychology 37 (3-4):193-196.
    Invited Commentary On: Graziano, M. S. A., Guterstam, A., Bio, B. J., Wilterson, A. I. (2019). Toward a standard model of consciousness: Reconciling the attention schema, global workspace, higher order thought, and illusionist theories. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
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  13. Consciousness, Origins.Gregory Nixon - 2016 - In Harold L. Miller Jr, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Sage Publications. pp. 172-176.
    To explain the origin of anything, we must be clear about that which we are explaining. There seem to be two main meanings for the term consciousness. One might be called open in that it equates consciousness with awareness and experience and considers rudimentary sensations to have evolved at a specific point in the evolution of increasing complexity. But certainly the foundation for such sensation is a physical body. It is unclear, however, exactly what the physical requirements are for a (...)
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  14. Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World. [REVIEW]Alicia Juarrero - 2000 - Review of Metaphysics 53 (4):955-956.
    John Searle articulates a general theory of how mind, language, and society “hang together” in a coherent whole. He begins with some assumptions regarding “basic metaphysics,” defending “external realism” even as he refuses to provide a justification for it on the grounds that “any attempt at justification presupposes what it attempts to justify”.
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  15. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling. [REVIEW]F. B. C. - 1973 - Review of Metaphysics 27 (2):400-400.
    The present volume contains Part Four, "The Great Shift," of Susanne Langer’s projected six-part magnum opus entitled, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling. The first volume dealt with three parts: "Problems and Principles," "The Import of Art," and "Natura Naturans;" Volume II rests squarely on these three foundational parts. The balance of the work will be concerned with "The Moral Structure," and with "Knowledge and Truth." In this reviewer’s opinion, Professor Langer’s essay is easily the most significant theory of mind (...)
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  16. Bewustzijn en de nieuwe filosofie van het d.i.e.r.Pouwel Slurink - 1996 - In Oosterling Henk, Prins Awee & Groot Ger, Van Agora tot Markt. Acta van de 18e Nederlands-Vlaamse Filosofiedag. Erasmus Universiteit, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte. pp. 191-195.
  17. Consciousness, Origin of.Gregory Nixon - 2016 - In Harold L. Miller Jr, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Sage Publications. pp. 172-176.
    To seek an answer to the question “What is the origin of consciousness?” one must first assume a perspective within the most fundamental ontological questions in philosophy. These questions include: What is ultimate reality? Is it ultimately one thing (monism, say, matter or spirit), two things (dualism, say, matter and spirit or mind), or many things? Is it timeless and unchanging or a process of continual change? Is the universe God-created, self-created, or perhaps an accident?
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  18. Brain and Mind.James Pratt - 1968 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (3):454-456.
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  19. (2 other versions)Human Ethology and Phenomenology Part II.Louis A. Fourcher - 1979 - Behavior and Philosophy 7 (2):85.
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  20. Searle's mind: Physical, irreducible, subjective, and non-computational.Amir Horowitz - 1994 - Pragmatics and Cognition 2 (1):207-220.
  21. Naomi Goldblum, The Brain-Shaped Mind: What the Brain Can Tell us About the Mind.Jyh Wee Sew - 2004 - Pragmatics and Cognition 12 (2):409-413.
  22. Responses to Critics of The Construction of Social Reality.David-Hillel Ruben - 1997 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2):449-458.
  23. Reflections on the Clash or Reconciliation of Civilizations.Ashok Kumar Malhotra - 2011 - Dialogue and Universalism 21 (1):95-107.
    The thesis of the paper is that the root cause of clash or reconciliation among civilizations is housed in the drama of consciousness! Two models of consciousness that highlight this drama are put forward here. First is Jean Gebser’s view, which asserts that the history of human civilization is nothing more than the manifestations of the development of consciousness. This development has taken place through five distinct stages: the archaic, magical, mythic, mental and integrative. Clash in civilizations is due to (...)
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  24. Mind, Language and Society. [REVIEW]Philip Dwyer - 2001 - Dialogue 40 (2):408-410.
    In the pre-postmodern era, subtitles were truly and merely “sub” and were reserved for books. They served to characterize and categorize a book so as to let the innocent consumer know what he was getting into if he could not tell from the title proper; thus, Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics or Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind. But the proper subtitle has evolved into an entire second title, is routinely used for journal articles and conference presentations, (...)
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  25. Mind and Its Place in Nature. [REVIEW] Bouscaren - 1926 - Modern Schoolman 2 (8):115-116.
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  26. Response to John R. Searle’s “The Future of Philosophy”.Michael J. Dodds - 2016 - Nova et Vetera 14 (2):559-564.
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  27. Susan Leigh Star. Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 278. ISBN 0-8047-1673-0. [REVIEW]Christopher Lawrence - 1991 - British Journal for the History of Science 24 (1):107-109.
  28. The Rediscovery of the Mind. John R. Searle.David Gooding - 1994 - Isis 85 (2):362-363.
  29. Brain and Mind.Cees van Leeuwen - 2013 - Philosophia Scientiae 17 (2):71-87.
    Le débat sur les relations esprit–cerveau a été centré sur des questions relatives au libre arbitre. J’examine ce débat et conclus que les neurosciences n’ont pas de raisons méthodologiques, ontologiques ou théoriques convaincantes, pas plus que de raisons empiriques, pour rejeter la notion de libre arbitre. Parallèlement, je reconnais que la question est très controversée, à la fois en science et dans la société. Le problème se situe dans l’incompatibilité entre notions scientifiques du cerveau et notions pré-scientifiques de l’esprit. Par (...)
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  30. Life and consciousness – The Vedāntic view.Bhakti Niskama Shanta - 2015 - Communicative and Integrative Biology 8 (5):e1085138.
    In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality. Scientists started proposing hypotheses like abiogenesis (origin of first life from accumulation of atoms and molecules) and the Big Bang theory (the explosion theory for explaining the origin of universe). How the universe came to be what (...)
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  31. Meditation and unity of consciousness: a perspective from Buddhist epistemology. [REVIEW]Monima Chadha - 2015 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (1):111-127.
    The paper argues that empirical work on Buddhist meditation has an impact on Buddhist epistemology, in particular their account of unity of consciousness. I explain the Buddhist account of unity of consciousness and show how it relates to contemporary philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness. The contemporary accounts of unity of consciousness are closely integrated with the discussion of neural correlates of consciousness. The conclusion of the paper suggests a new direction in the search for neural correlates of state consciousness (...)
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  32. A Philosophical Theory on Human Communication and Modern Physics: Echt Energy-Exchange and Consciousness-Change Toward Humanism, Healing, and Transformation.Marnishia Laverne Jenkins-Tate - 2000 - Dissertation, Howard University
    This dissertation addresses the need for a body of human communication theory that can be useful toward advancing personal and social transformation. Of the humanistic genre, it suggests that there is a need to promote humanism, healing, and personal transformation in the non-clinical settings of everyday living. Three questions guide the effort. First, it asks: what kind of human communication theory might describe some of the underlying dynamics of human interaction, while also suggesting ways to improve the quality of interactions (...)
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  33. Mind, Brain and Biochemistry.Albert S. Moraczewski - 1961 - The Thomist 24 (2):519.
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  34. Does Saying so Make It So?: An Examination of John Searle's Doctrine of Assertions and Aberrations.Emanuel Albert Pacheco - 1973 - Dissertation, University of Oregon
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  35. John R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind. [REVIEW]Stewart Nicolson - 1993 - Philosophy in Review 13:56-58.
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  36. Ilham Dilman, Mind, Brain, and Behaviour: Discussions of B.F. Skinner and J.R. Searle. [REVIEW]Deryl Howard - 1989 - Philosophy in Review 9:259-261.
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  37. Nick Fotion, John Searle. [REVIEW]Robert Harnish - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21:332-334.
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  38. The Mentality of Apes.Ella Winter - 1925 - Mind 34 (135):369-372.
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  39. KÖHLER, W. - The Mentality of Apes. [REVIEW]E. M. B. E. M. B. - 1925 - Mind 34:369.
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  40. The Evolution of Consciousness and the Individuation Process.David Johnston - 1996 - Dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute
    This dissertation is a heuristic and hermeneutic research paper on the evolution of consciousness and the individuation process. I begin by examining the question of the evolution of consciousness and its significance regarding individuation in the work of four different authors: Jung, Neumann, Sri Aurobindo, and Gebser. I then study the nature of the development of the Western mind since the period of the Greek philosophers up to postmodernism and beyond. Finally, I discuss the meaning of the individuation process. ;All (...)
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  41. The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution.Michael C. Corballis & S. E. G. Lea - 1999 - Oxford University Press USA.
    To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. Some researchers claimlanguage as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by archaeologists and anthropologists until recently, but this volume aims to show what (...)
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  42. John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms, and Reconstructions.David Koepsell & Laurence S. Moss - 2003 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    John R. Searle’s 1995 publication The Construction of Social Reality is the foundation of this collection of scholarly papers examining Searle's philosophical theories. Searle’s book sets out to reconstruct the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis of linguistic practices in the context of his celebrated work on intentionality. His book provided a stimulating account of institutional facts such as money and marriage and how they are created and replicated in everyday social life. The authors in this collection provide (...)
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  43. John Searle What Should an Educated Person Know?Bill D. Moyers, Betsy Mccarthy, N. Wnet Newyork & Ill) Wttw Chicago - 1988 - Public Affairs Television, Inc. Wnet Wttn.
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  44. Auto-Centricism; or, the Brain Theory of Life and Mind Being the Substance of Letters Written to the "Secular Review".Robert Lewins & Herbert Courtney - 1888 - W. Stewart & Co.
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  45. Searle's Invitation Accepted.Edgar Morscher - 1974 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 55 (3):224.
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  46. Mind in Transition: Patterns, Conflicts and Changes in the Evolution of the Mind. [REVIEW]J. H. R. - 1938 - Journal of Philosophy 35 (18):497-497.
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  47. Ethics, Mind and Brain.H. Leuchtag - 1992 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 1.
  48. Brain and Mind: Modern Concepts of the Nature of Mind. [REVIEW]A. R. E. - 1966 - Review of Metaphysics 19 (4):820-820.
    Nine lead papers, all with two or three commentators, and six with replies to the commentators. It is the Identity theorists cum cybernetician versus the "non-Cartesian dualists" and C. D. Broad-style interactionists. The most sparks are generated with MacKay's paper, "From Mechanism to Mind," and the ensuing exchange between MacKay and Beloff; MacKay's paper is intended as a summary of his work in cybernetics as it relates to the philosophy of mind, and Beloff's criticisms range from the cautious to the (...)
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  49. The Mind and the Brain: A Multi-Aspect Interpretation. [REVIEW]S. P. - 1974 - Review of Metaphysics 27 (4):807-808.
    This book argues for a psychophysical dualism maintaining an experiential and ontological distinction between experiences and their physical correlates and/or causes. Ornstein criticizes reductionist extremes on either side of mentalism or physicalism but accepts, for example, Descartes’ conclusion that experience is the most important aspect of mind and Ryle’s emphasis on the intelligent behavioral component. The identity theory is the most distorted view of the mind even though neurophysiologists have discovered correlations of sensations and neural processes. Sensations are identical with (...)
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  50. The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle. [REVIEW]Daniel C. Dennett - 1993 - Journal of Philosophy 90 (4):193-205.
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