Yesterday I went to Patricia Kitcher’s very interesting talk at the CUNY Cog sci Colloquium entitled ‘Layers of Consciousness in Kantian Judgments’. Her central concern was trying to give an account of how it is that the understanding can be conscious of itself as it performs various mental activities like …
In Explaining What It’s Like I argued that any kind of higher-order theory of consciousness that wants to implement the higher-order strategy (which is explaining qualitative consciousness in virtue of our being conscious of our first-order states with qualitative properties) thereby commits itself to the claim that there is a qualitative …
This is kind of random…I was reading a recent issue of Science and COnsciousness Review that talked about artificial senses which got me to thinking. If this stuff is right, and we are to count these things as really an additional sense, then it would seem to follow that we have been …
Recently there have been a lot of stories in the news about scientist’s finding water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet, and finding an extra-solar planet that they classify as habitableWhat is striking (to me) about these stories, besides the overal ‘cool factor’ of space stuff, is that these scientists …
