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conscious mind
Also known as: conscious thought, conscious self, conscious thoughts, conscious minds
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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 7 facts
claimConscious thoughts and experiences are transparent in a semantic sense because their meanings seem immediately known to individuals during the act of thinking, as noted by Van Gulick (1992).
perspectiveModest eliminativists, such as Dennett (1990, 1992) and Carruthers (2000), do not reject the notion of consciousness entirely but take issue with specific features like qualia, the conscious self, or the 'Cartesian Theater' where the temporal sequence of conscious experience is internally projected.
perspectiveDaniel Dennett (1991, 1992) proposes a deflationary and virtual account of the self to explain the self-perspectival aspect of experience and the self-like organization of conscious minds.
claimRené Descartes (1644) and John Searle (1992) posit that conscious experiences exist as modes or states of a conscious self or subject, rather than as isolated mental atoms, a view contrasted by David Hume (1739).
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.
referenceAssociationist psychology, as pursued by John Locke, David Hume (1739), and James Mill (1829), aimed to discover the principles by which conscious thoughts or ideas interact with or affect one another.
claimThe perspectival structure of consciousness is a fundamental aspect of its overall phenomenal organization, often referred to as self-perspectuality when the perspective is that of a conscious self.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 3 facts
claimNon-constitutive panpsychism typically takes the form of emergentism, where the conscious minds of humans and animals arise as a causal product of interactions between micro-level conscious subjects.
claimRussellian monists believe that the conscious mind is the intrinsic nature of the brain, while constitutive micropsychists believe human experience is grounded in the properties of micro-level entities.
perspectiveDualists argue that the conscious mind is a completely distinct entity from the brain, which avoids the structural mismatch problem regarding the differences between conscious experience and brain structure.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 3 facts
perspectiveDualists hold the perspective that the conscious mind is a completely distinct entity from the brain.
perspectiveMany panpsychists believe that the conscious mind is identical with, or bears a very intimate relationship with, the brain.
perspectiveMost Russellian monists believe that the conscious mind is the intrinsic nature of the brain.
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org Dec 20, 2024 2 facts
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimSome theories suggest that the conscious self can be explained by 're-entry' processes occurring between distant active brain areas, rather than being located in a single specific locus in the brain.
claimScholars including Rorty (1979), Dennett (1991), Varela et al. (1993), James (1996), and Nietzsche (2002) have refused the notion of the conscious self.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimIn the mechanistic worldview, phenomena not explainable by material interactions were labeled 'secondary qualities' existing only in the conscious mind.
claimJosiah Royce argued that the time scale of a conscious mind can vary tremendously, suggesting that the consciousness of a galaxy processes billions of times slower than human consciousness, while subatomic particles might process billions of times faster.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimBertrand Russell argued that the conscious mind is a structure created by quiddities, which are the intrinsic properties corresponding to extrinsic physical properties.
claimBertrand Russell believed that the conscious mind is a structure formed by the corresponding and identical quiddities of matter.
Carlos Montemayor: Difference Between Consciousness and Attention youtube.com Oct 9, 2019 1 fact
claimCarlos Montemayor explores a set of issues in consciousness studies intended to clarify the understanding of the conscious mind.
Attention - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science - MIT oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimAutomatic attention is characterized as attention that occurs without conscious thought.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 1 fact
claimSelf-consciousness is defined as a subject's capacity to entertain conscious thought about oneself, specifically thinking of oneself as oneself rather than merely thinking about a person who happens to be oneself.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
referenceE. Squires authored the 1990 book 'Conscious Mind in the Physical World', published in Bristol by Adam Hilger.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimMechanists define the conscious mind as an epiphenomenon, meaning it is a by-product of the physical system that exerts no influence back upon that system.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimProperty dualism holds that the conscious mind is not a separate substance from the physical brain, but that phenomenal properties are nonphysical properties of the brain.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
referenceDavid Chalmers authored the book 'The Conscious Mind', published by Oxford University Press in 1996.
Fame in the Brain—Global Workspace Theories of Consciousness psychologytoday.com Oct 28, 2023 1 fact
claimGlobal Workspace Theory uses a 'theater' analogy where conscious thought is the activity in the spotlight, implying that only a limited number of thoughts or perceptions can be conscious at any given time.