Cultivated for ages in the Russian intellectual-cultural tradition and community consciousness questions about Russia and formulated within them the questions about the thought and work of F.M. Dostoyevsky remain often symptomatically integrally linked, even mutually co-assuming. As, programmatically assumed by the author of the article, the post-Kantian philosophical perspective illustrates an...

Adopting an ‘‘archetypal’’ reading of analytical psychology, this paper seeks to explore the often encountered assumption that consciousness is ‘‘evolving.’’ The author considers parallels between the work of C.G. Jung and Jean Gebser, arguing that the ideas of both figures have at times been improperly understood and misappropriated in support of the evolutionary paradigm. It is suggested that...

This article considers W. Ross Ashby’s ideas on the nature of embodied minds, as articulated in the last five years of his career. In particular, it attempts to connect his ideas to later work by others in robotics, perception and consciousness. While it is difficult to measure his direct influence on this work, the conceptual links are deep. Moreover, Ashby provides a comprehensive view of the...

Consciousness is not only a philosophical but also a technological issue, since a conscious agent has evolutionary advantages. Thus, to replicate a biological level of intelligence in a machine, concepts of machine consciousness have to be considered. The widespread internalistic assumption that humans do not experience the world as it is, but through an internal ‘3D virtual reality model’, hin...

This excellent book is aptly titled. It presents a closely argued analysis of the current state of consciousness studies and suggests a strategy of investigation, which the author believes is necessary to establish a robust science of consciousness. Before he introduces the details of his framework for a unified science of consciousness, Revonsuo makes the following broad assertions: 1. The fie...

This paper describes a new theory of consciousness based on previous work by C.D. Broad, H.H. Price, Andrei Linde and others. This hypothesis states that the Universe consists of three fundamental entities — space-time, matter and consciousness, each with their own degrees of freedom. The paper pays particular attention to three areas that impact on this theory: (1) the demonstration by neurosc...

As any other psychological phenomenon, consciousness must have tangible, measurable, and quantifiable underpinnings in the brain of any species capable of experiencing it. As Baars and Edelman point out in their review [1], the empirical body of neuronal correlates of consciousness is growing rapidly, not lastly due to the work of the authors themselves. Here, the authors address a theory that ...

Our society is strongly divided between those who believe that matter is primary and consciousness is only a side effect of matter, and those who believe that consciousness is primary and created matter. Mainstream science favours matter as the primary force, while the opposite “spiritual” belief dominates in religion, popular culture, and with scientists who work at the borders of official sci...

Recent work in experimental psychology and neuroscience has revealed a rather surprising architecture for early (or preattentive) perceptual processes. This paper will describe some of the surprising features of that architecture, and how they bear on recent philosophical debates about the notion of phenomenal consciousness. I will argue that the common sense idea that states of phenomenal cons...

This paper describes a new theory of consciousness based on previous work by C.D. Broad, H.H. Price, Andrei Linde and others. This hypothesis states that the Universe consists of three fundamental entities — space-time, matter and consciousness, each with their own degrees of freedom. The paper pays particular attention to three areas that impact on this theory: (1) the demonstration by neurosc...