Thursday, October 29, 2009

PhIG 7 - November 7

Good day colleagues:

There is an argument which holds that nothing can have a mental experience without a physical property. Given this view....then:

1. What is consciousness?
2. Where is consciousness located? Is it in the mind , it is something out there or can it be created using by physical objects, like in the case of artificial intelligence?
3. Do Human beings exhibit higher levels of consciousness than animals /creatures?
4. Can consciousness exist in an unconsciousness state?

Let us explore our 'conscious' experiences at Weiser's Beach Bar on November 7, 2009 @ 4pm. If you cannot attend, be sure to forward your views via email.

Warm Regards,
Felicia
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2 comments:

  1. EdOctober 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    There is an enormous amount on-line relating to consciousness. One big site is maintained by David Chalmers:
    http://consc.net/online - he says he has 3755 papers directly on the philosophy of consciousness!

    The SEP has several articles, the base one being here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

    The Journal of Consciousness Studies keeps a lot of articles freely available on-line; you have to go to its home page and navigate from there to the journal and then to "full-text": http://www.imprint.co.uk/

    One of the weirder views in the area is panpsychism, now ably defended by Galen Strawson; you can find my review of one of his accounts here: http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3646

    Another extreme view is due to Dan Dennett. Wikipedia gives a brief account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained which has a link to a review of the book in question. There is also a much more recent video by him: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness.html

    There is of course much more. Have fun!

    Ed

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  2. EdOctober 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    With links live if I can do it - this blog is a PAIN!

    http://consc.net/online.

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

    http://www.imprint.co.uk/

    http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3646

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained

    http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness.html

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