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Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 3 facts
claimDiscussions regarding the relation between mind and matter distinguish between descriptive approaches, such as correlation, and explanatory approaches, such as causation.
claimCorrelations can be synchronic (occurring at the same time) rather than diachronic, which lacks the temporal distance required for cause-effect relations.
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.
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.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers argues that his proposed theory of consciousness can provide a solution that goes beyond mere correlation to explanation, similar to how Newton's theory of gravitation explains macroscopic regularities.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 1 fact
procedureResearchers assessed the significance of the correlation between observed matrices and theory-predicted matrices by generating a null distribution of possible correlations for each theory and locating the observed correlation within that distribution.
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.
Knowledge Graphs: Opportunities and Challenges - Springer Nature link.springer.com Apr 3, 2023 1 fact
claimSome content-based recommender systems utilize the content of original query results to discover highly-related items by employing machine learning techniques or statistical measures like correlation to compute similarity.
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org Dec 20, 2024 1 fact
claimStrong synchronization in a neural network implies a high correlation between individual nerve cells, suggesting that the flow of information within a system can be studied effectively through the concept of correlation.