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causality
Also known as: causality, causation
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Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 4 facts
claimSome philosophers argue that causation does not require the transfer of energy, citing causation by omission (e.g., a plant dying from lack of water) as an example.
claimDavid Hume argued that the connection between causes and effects cannot be explained or understood because humans only perceive causes followed by effects, rather than any binding powers or forces.
claimMørch (ms) argues that if things are made of energy and causation requires energy transfer, then a non-physical substance cannot receive a physical constituent without becoming partially physical.
perspectiveThomas Nagel claims that it is unintelligible how any physical process can necessitate consciousness, asserting that causation must involve necessitation rather than effects merely following causes.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 3 facts
claimIf causation is understood as a matter of constant conjunction or through ethereal forces rather than physical impact, the problem of mind-body interaction in principle disappears.
claimOccasionalists, including Arnold Geulincx and Nicholas Malebranche, generalized their conclusion about mind-body interaction to treat all causation as directly dependent on God.
referenceJaegwon Kim authored the chapter 'Lonely souls: causality and substance dualism' for the book 'Philosophy of Mind: contemporary readings', edited by T. O'Connor and D. Robb and published by Routledge in 2003.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 3 facts
referenceHedda Hassel Mørch authored the Ph.D. thesis 'Panpsychism and Causation: A New Argument and a Solution to the Combination Problem' at the University of Oslo in 2014.
referenceGregg H. Rosenberg discussed causality and the combination problem in a 2014 publication.
referenceWilliam James published the chapter 'Novelty and Causation: The Perceptual View' in the book 'Some Problems of Philosophy' through Longmans, Green & Co. in 1911.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 2 facts
claimCorrelation is a descriptive term with empirical relevance, whereas causation is an explanatory term associated with theoretical attempts to understand correlations.
claimCausation implies correlations between cause and effect, but correlations between two systems can result from a common cause in their history rather than from a direct causal interaction.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that extrinsic properties of physics must have corresponding intrinsic properties because otherwise the universe would be "a giant causal flux" with nothing for "causation to relate," which he considers a logical impossibility.
referenceHedda Hassel Mørch authored the chapter 'The Argument for Panpsychism from Experience of Causation' in 'The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism', edited by William Seager and published by Routledge in 2019.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 2 facts
referenceM. Silberstein published 'Converging on emergence: consciousness, causation and explanation' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2001.
claimImmanuel Kant argued that phenomenal consciousness cannot be a mere succession of associated ideas, but must be the experience of a conscious self situated in an objective world structured by space, time, and causality.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 2 facts
claimDiscussions regarding the relation between mind and matter distinguish between descriptive approaches, such as correlation, and explanatory approaches, such as causation.
claimCausation implies correlation, but correlation does not necessarily imply causation, as correlations between two systems can result from a common historical cause rather than direct causal interaction.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 2 facts
claimThe view that the world contains only dispositions, without an underlying categorical basis, leads to a world of causation without entities, effectively making fundamental properties and particles empty placeholders.
claimIn the Russellian view, fundamental experiences or proto-experiences serve as the basis of causation at the lowest levels, and high-level experiences inherit causal relevance from these constituent proto-experiences.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
quoteWilliam James argued that if we treat our own experiences of causal agency as the model for causation, we must ascribe an inwardly experiential nature to physical causation outside of our own lives.
claimHedda Hassel Mørch reformulated an argument for panpsychism based on the experience of causation.
Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction ... philosophy.stackexchange.com Nov 17, 2025 1 fact
claimModern scientific understanding of causation, which includes non-contact, probabilistic, and distance-based interactions, does not resolve the interaction problem for dualism but rather complicates it by requiring an explanation of how non-physical consciousness interacts with the body.
Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI through Neuro-Symbolic ... arxiv.org Feb 16, 2025 1 fact
claimNeural networks (NNs) struggle with reasoning and generalizing beyond their training data, particularly in tasks involving logical inference, commonsense reasoning, causality, sequential problem-solving, and decision-making that relies on outside world knowledge.
A harder problem of consciousness: reflections on a 50-year quest ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimPenrose (2004) and Misner et al. (1973) proposed that space might be an emergent property of light, which would explain constraints like the speed limit, time dilation, and causality.
PANPSYCHISM (Philosophy of Mind Series) - Amazon.com amazon.com 1 fact
accountIn 2013, Ludwig Jaskolla defended his PhD thesis on persistence-conditions and causation in 4-dimensional ontologies at the Munich School of Philosophy, which was funded by a grant from the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimThe authors of the 2017 paper in 'Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric' argue that concepts such as self, identity, time, place, causality, and purpose cannot be coherently imagined or known without non-definitional alphabets, symbols, and semantic structures.
A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by ... elifesciences.org 1 fact
referenceThe research paper titled 'Causality, feedback and directed information' was published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA).
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimRosenberg (2005) provides the most extensive discussion of the argument for panpsychism based on a critique of the conception of causation.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimIn the context of the mind-matter problem, correlation is a descriptive term with empirical relevance, whereas causation is an explanatory term used in theoretical attempts to understand those correlations.
A framework to assess clinical safety and hallucination rates of LLMs ... nature.com May 13, 2025 1 fact
procedureThe study divides hallucinations into four categories: (1) fabrication (information not evidenced in the text), (2) negation (output negates a clinically relevant fact), (3) causality (speculation of condition cause without support), and (4) contextual (mixing unrelated topics).
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org Dec 20, 2024 1 fact
referenceM. Samarawickrama authored the paper 'Mathematical modeling of consciousness for unifying causation, relativity and quantum mechanics,' published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, volume 2701, in 2024.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
referenceGregg Rosenberg (2005) provides an extensive discussion of the argument for panpsychism based on a critique of the conception of causation.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 1 fact
quoteWegner (2003, p. 68) states that the experience of conscious will is "no more than a rough and ready guide to causation."