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Theories of Mind and Consciousness
Our goal with this topic is to track theoretical scientific progress, so that we can rigorously demonstrate not only how much consensus progress we have made, but also to encourage experimentation under a falsification paradigm to narrow the field of contenders. Eventually, we should arrive at the camp that best describes consciousness, supported by evidence.
Alternative sites focus on disagreements, which tends to increase polarization. For example Wikipedia polarizes everyone around the Qualia issue. As you can see in that topic on qualia, Daniell Dennett is one of the top “critics of qualia”. Instead, Canonizer enables people to find things they agree on, then negotiates terminology more people can accept. As you can see here Dennet’s Predictive Bayesian Coding Theory camp is in a supporting sub camp position to the consensus Representational Qualia Theory super camp.
The focus of this topic is on the phenomenological nature of consciousness, asking the question: “What is it like?” Some people refer to this as the “hard problem” and talk about an “explanatory gap”.
If you want to help push this most important of all theoretical fields of science forward, please sign or support the camp you find most convincing. Then recruit others to do the same. Eventually the experimentalists will take notice, perform the experiments as described, the results of which will force people into the correct camp. We will then have a definitive scientific consensus nobody can doubt.
This topic is part of the Consciousness Consensus Project.
Edit Summary : Update agreement statement with a call to action.
Submitted On : 05 June 2022, 11:19:26 AM
Submitter Nickname : Brent_Allsop
Go Live Time : 06 June 2022, 11:19:26 AM
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Theories of Mind and Consciousness
The goal of this topic is to build and track consensus around the best theories of consciousness. Everyone is invited to contribute, as we want to track the default popular consensus. There is also the “Mind Expert” canonizer people can select, so people can compare the popular consensus with the “Expert Consensus”.
The focus is on the qualitative nature of consciousness. To date, the emerging consensus is predicting all we currently know about the colorness qualities of the world is the color things ‘seem’ to be. The intrinsic redness we experience is a quality of our knowledge of the strawberry, not a quality of the strawberry. Today, all of peer reviewed physics is ‘qualia blind’ or only uses one abstract word for all things red. The prediction is that once we discover which of all our descriptions of stuff in the brain is a description of redness, this will force everyone into THE ONE camp best predicting what this will soon be demonstrated to be. Today, all observation of the brain is making the same problem Jack Galant is making, when observing color perception. The goal of this topic is to be kind of like a petition, to send a message to all experimentalists, to get them to start reporting on observations of the brain in a non-qualia blind way. The current prediction is, once they do this, one of them will quickly discover which of all our descriptions of stuff in the brain is redness. So please help push this critically important scientific cause forward, and at least support the emerging consensus camps, to send this message and help accelerate this field of study to finally resolve one of the most important questions of our day: What is the nature of color and more generally, the nature of all possible qualia?
Contributors should work to describe experiments that are consistent with particular theories, and falsify competing theories.
This topic is part of the Consciousness Consensus Project.
Edit Summary : Change the goal of this topic, to be a petition, to send a message to all experimentalists, to get them to stop being qualia blind. And to ask for help/support.
Submitted On : 22 January 2022, 08:58:59 PM
Submitter Nickname : Brent_Allsop
Go Live Time : 23 January 2022, 08:58:59 PM
Statement :
Theories of Mind and Consciousness
The goal of this topic is to build and track consensus around theories of consciousness. Everyone is invited to contribute, as we want to track the default popular consensus. There is also the “Mind Expert” canonizer people can select, so people can compare the popular consensus with the “Expert Consensus”.
We focus on bridging the Explanatory Gap to explore the qualitative nature of consciousness. We are asking the questions: “What are the physical properties of conscious experience?” Physical properties can be measured. “Can consciousness then be physically measured, tested, and observed?”
Contributors should work to describe experiments that are consistent with particular theories, and falsify competing theories.
This topic is part of the Consciousness Consensus Project.
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Submitted On : 28 September 2021, 01:38:38 PM
Submitter Nickname : ali_ahmad
Go Live Time : 29 September 2021, 01:38:38 PM
Statement :
Theories of Mind and Consciousness
The goal of this topic is to build and track consensus around theories of consciousness. Everyone is invited to contribute, as we want to track the default popular consensus. There is also the “Mind Expert” canonizer people can select, so people can compare the popular consensus with the “Expert Consensus”.
We focus on bridging the Explanatory Gap to explore the qualitative nature of consciousness. We are asking the questions: “What are the physical properties of conscious experience?” Physical properties can be measured. “Can consciousness then be physically measured, tested, and observed?”
Contributors should work to describe experiments that are consistent with particular theories, and falsify competing theories.
This topic is part of the Consciousness Consensus Project.