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human consciousness
Also known as: human conscious experience
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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 11 facts
claimDualism faces the problem of reconciling the causal efficacy of human consciousness with the empirical fact that the physical world is causally closed, meaning every event has a sufficient physical cause.
claimThe truth of panpsychism is not logically entailed by the existence of human consciousness, requiring a choice between competing theories based on theoretical virtues like parsimony and simplicity.
perspectivePanpsychists generally posit that the richness and variety of human consciousness result from a relatively small number of fundamental mental qualities, with Russellian monists specifically arguing these are the intrinsic nature of basic properties identified by physics.
perspectiveA growing minority of analytic philosophers are exploring panpsychism to provide a satisfying account of the emergence of human consciousness and to offer a positive account of the intrinsic nature of matter.
claimConstitutive micropsychism posits that micro-level entities possess basic forms of conscious experience, which combine in brains to constitute human and animal consciousness.
perspectiveRoelofs (2015) argues that the structure of human conscious experience might exceed our awareness of it, a view that echoes the philosophies of Leibniz and Spinoza.
claimArguments for panpsychism are often based on the existence of human consciousness, which is considered a datum known with greater certainty than the data of observation and experiments.
claimHuman conscious experience possesses a rich structure that includes spatial characteristics and distinct sensory modalities.
claimPanpsychism could be supported if it provides the best explanation for the existence of human and animal consciousness or if it serves as the most parsimonious theory of the intrinsic nature of matter.
claimConstitutive panpsychism is the view that facts about human and animal consciousness are not fundamental, but are grounded in, realized by, or constituted of facts about more fundamental, micro-level consciousness.
claimNon-constitutive panpsychism is the view that facts about human and animal consciousness are among the fundamental facts of the universe, rather than being grounded in micro-level consciousness.
A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by ... elifesciences.org 7 facts
referenceThe paper 'Temporal circuit of macroscale dynamic brain activity supports human consciousness' by Demertzi et al. (2019) identifies a temporal circuit of macroscale dynamic brain activity that supports human consciousness.
claimThe Integrated Information Decomposition framework allows for the identification of information-theoretic components of integrated information, providing insights into human consciousness that were not captured by standard functional connectivity methods.
referenceThe article 'A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by...' (DOI 10.7554/eLife.88173) was published in 2023 by Luppi et al. and is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
referenceThe study 'Distributed harmonic patterns of structure-function dependence orchestrate human consciousness' published in Communications Biology proposes that distributed harmonic patterns of structure-function dependence are responsible for orchestrating human consciousness.
claimBrain regions that satisfy specific conditions constitute an interconnected 'synergistic core' of workspace regions that support human consciousness.
claimThe framework of Integrated Information Decomposition provides an information-resolved approach that yields insights into human consciousness and neurocognitive architecture.
referenceThe study 'Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination' was published in Science Advances (volume 5, pages 1–12).
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 6 facts
claimHuman conscious experience possesses a structure that appears to correspond to the spatial environment being experienced, and the experience as a whole is divided into distinct sensory modalities.
claimEmergentists avoid some forms of the combination problem by treating human and animal consciousness as fundamental rather than composed of more basic forms of consciousness.
claimPhysicalism is a philosophical view that offers a unified vision of the world but faces difficulty in providing a satisfactory account of how human and animal consciousness emerges.
quoteW.K. Clifford argued that if the doctrine of evolution is accepted, even the lowest organisms, such as the Amoeba, possess something of the same nature as human consciousness.
claimAccording to constitutive panpsychism, the fact that a human is conscious wholly consists in the fact that certain particles in the human brain are arranged or interacting in a specific way.
claimThe structure of human conscious experience appears significantly different from the structure of the brain at both the micro and macro levels.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 5 facts
perspectiveThe author suggests that the late appearance of single-channeled seriality in human consciousness represents a case of regressive evolution because it is less complex and efficient than the parallel activity that preceded it.
claimThe author argues that human consciousness is a by-product of the interface between the subcortical control system and the innovation-producing system, based on the similarity between the anatomical and functional characteristics of this interface and those ascribed to consciousness.
claimHuman consciousness is often viewed as an upgrade of pre-existing cognitive skills, but conscious perception, memory, action, and decision-making are frequently inferior—less complex, slower, and less accurate—than their nonconscious (subliminal) counterparts.
claimBasic functions of developed animals, including metabolic functions, sensory and motor activities, emotion, and decision-making, evolved before the appearance of human consciousness.
claimHuman consciousness acts as an agent that has modified human functions, including thinking, emotions, sensory-motor functions, and metabolic processes.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
referencePatricia Churchland advocates for a radical approach to the study of human consciousness, as discussed in a 2019 interview with Julian Baggini.
claimCosmopsychism posits that human consciousness derives from a larger cosmic consciousness.
perspectiveContinuist panpsychism, proposed by Luke Roelofs, argues that while human consciousness is informationally bounded, it is likely phenomenally unbounded and part of a single, continuous field of experience.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 3 facts
claimDavid Chalmers holds that human consciousness is known with a high degree of certainty, though it falls short of being absolutely certain.
claimComplex consciousness, such as human and animal consciousness, is theorized to result from fundamental consciousness or protoconsciousness being combined in the correct manner.
claimCosmopsychism explains human consciousness as either constituted by (constitutive cosmic cosmopsychism) or causally produced by (emergent cosmopsychism) parts of the cosmic experience.
Global Versus Local Theories of Consciousness and the ... link.springer.com 2 facts
claimEdelman's dynamic core theory posits that human consciousness depends on reentry processes facilitated by the thalamocortical loop.
claimIntegrated Information Theory (IIT) aims to be applicable to all physical systems, rather than being strictly limited to human consciousness, which makes it attractive for use in unusual contexts such as brain organoids.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 2 facts
claimWithin panpsychist frameworks, human consciousness is considered a special case within the mental domain, analogous to the brain being a special case within the material domain.
claimPanpsychist frameworks often define 'mentality' broadly to include unconscious or proto-mental acts, rather than restricting the definition to human consciousness.
The science of human consciousness offers new ways of gauging ... facebook.com Oct 3, 2023 2 facts
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
accountRené Descartes proposed that animals are 'zombie-animals' that lack phenomenal experience, necessitating the introduction of God as an additional principle to explain human consciousness.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 1 fact
referenceRafael Malach published 'Local neuronal relational structures underlying the contents of human conscious experience' in Neuroscience of Consciousness in 2021.
Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness - ORBi orbi.uliege.be 1 fact
referenceJohn C. Lilly authored 'Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments', which details his theories on human consciousness (originally published in 1968, reprinted in 2014).
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimFritz London and Edmond Bauer proposed in 1939 that human consciousness completes the process of quantum measurement, thereby attributing a crucial role to consciousness in understanding quantum measurement.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimWilliam Clifford argued that evolution cannot involve an enormous jump where an entirely novel, non-physical fact is introduced, implying that even the lowest organisms like the Amoeba possess something of the same nature as human consciousness.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimNeolithic burial practices provide early evidence for minimally reflective thought about the nature of human consciousness, as they appear to express spiritual beliefs (Pearson 1999; Clark and Riel-Salvatore 2001).
What is the evolutionary advantage of human consciousness? facebook.com Nov 28, 2025 1 fact
claimHuman consciousness includes memory, foresight, self-awareness, and the ability to integrate personal history into projects and social lives.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
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.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers argues that a final theory of human consciousness will likely require a combination of processing details and psychophysical principles to explain the facts about experience.
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 1 fact
claimThe fitness advantages offered by psychedelic substances impacted the evolution of human consciousness and aspects of human social psychology.
GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information ... mindmatters.ai Oct 15, 2021 1 fact
claimIntegrated Information Theory, as described by neuroscientist Christof Koch, is panpsychist in orientation, suggesting the universe participates in consciousness and human consciousness is the most highly developed instance.
The Functionalist Case for Machine Consciousness: Evidence from ... lesswrong.com Jan 22, 2025 1 fact
claimLarge Language Models demonstrate the ability to reflect on their own cognitive processes, show awareness of their limitations compared to human consciousness, and engage in nuanced analysis of their own information processing.
Consciousness and Self-Directed Attention - Springer Nature link.springer.com 1 fact
claimThe mission underlying philosophical quests regarding the mind and subjective experience has been to understand the nature of human consciousness.
Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Jun 14, 2024 1 fact
claimNicholas Humphrey, an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and a Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, researches sentience as a crucial evolutionary development for human consciousness and social interaction.
Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness sciencedirect.com 1 fact
claimThe review article 'Evolutionary origin and the development of consciousness' aims to investigate the adaptive value of human consciousness by integrating advances in anthropology and neuroscience.
Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 1 fact
claimFrancisco J. Varela's research interests focused on the biological mechanisms of cognitive phenomena and human consciousness, spanning both experimental research and conceptual foundations.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimThe first volume of 'The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan' focuses on the links between language, society, and human consciousness.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 1 fact
claimThe combination problem in panpsychism refers to the challenge of explaining how complex human consciousness, such as thoughts and perceptions, arises from the simpler forms of consciousness attributed to basic matter.
[EPUB] Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness - dokumen.pub dokumen.pub 1 fact
claimThe quality of human consciousness fluctuates based on an individual's perception of the world and their actions within it.
Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Mar 29, 2017 1 fact
claimThe nature of human consciousness has been a primary topic of philosophical inquiry.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 1 fact
referenceNeuroscientists Dehaene (2014), Tononi (2012), and Damasio (2010) have conducted significant studies on human consciousness.
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 1 fact
claimThe 'combination problem' in Russellian panpsychism, as identified by Chalmers (2017a), refers to the difficulty of explaining how complex, unified human consciousness arises from the micro-experiences of fundamental entities like quarks.