To be published in Foundations of Physics Publication date: June 6, 2006 (Found. Phys. 36 (6)) Published on line: DOI: 10.1007/s10701-006-9049-9 http://dx/doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9049-9 In the present work, quantum theory is founded on the framework of consciousness, in contrast to earlier suggestions that consciousness might be understood starting from quantum theory. The notion of streams ...

Though we take mainly a philosophical approach, we hope that the results of our work will be useful to researchers on consciousness who take other approaches. Everyone agrees, no matter what their point of view on consciousness, that consciousness has a representational base. However, there have been relatively few well-worked-out attempts to say what this base might be like. The two best devel...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In recent years, consciousness has become a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. This review focuses on the relation between bodily self-consciousness - the feeling of being a subject in a body - and visual consciousness - the subjective experience associated with the perception of visual signals. RECENT FINDINGS Findings from clinical and experimental work have shown th...

This article argues that Vygotsky’s choice of word meaning as the basic unit of analysis for cultural psychology connects him to a German psycholinguistic tradition—exemplified in the work of G. W. F. Hegel and J. G. Herder—distinct from the Marxist tradition. While later commentators criticize Vygotsky’s reliance on word meaning, arguing that it cannot explain the formation of consciousness, t...

Although we admire Ned Block’s effort to include cognitive neuroscience in his philosophical work, we cannot agree with his interpretation of the evidence [1]. Block has long argued that there are two kinds of consciousness: ‘phenomenological consciousness’ (what we experience) and ‘access consciousness’ (roughly, the information we can access via conscious experiences). In Baars’ theoretical w...

There are many interpretations of what consciousness is. In the past decade materialist and reductionist theories have gained in popularity as many neurological correlates of consciousness have been identified experimentally. This article presents a neurogenetic account of the underpinnings of neuron-based consciousness. In this paradigm, human consciousness is supported by genes that are invol...

Jon Driver's scientific work was characterized by an innovative combination of new methods for studying mental processes in the human brain in an integrative manner. In our collaborative work, he applied this approach to the study of attention and awareness, and their relationship to neural activity in the human brain. Here I review Jon's scientific work that relates to the neural basis of huma...

Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu’s analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu’s anal...

Abstract Up to now, there is a big debate, about what self-consciousness is, inhibits it, and how this related work. By referring classical theories of mind by Hegel paper advances the thesis an apparent congruence work as developmental process in social relationships. This aims open up wider philosophical horizon for criticism current digitalization increasing variety new flexible forms design...

There are two concepts of consciousness that are easy to confuse with one another, access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness. However, just as the concepts of water and H2O are different concepts of the same thing, so the two concepts of consciousness may come to the same thing in the brain. The focus of this paper is on the problems that arise when these two concepts of consciousness a...