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Francis Crick
Also known as: F. Crick, Francis H. Crick
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Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 4 facts
quoteFrancis Crick stated: “No longer need one spend time [enduring] the tedium of philosophers perpetually disagreeing with each other. Consciousness is now largely a scientific problem.”
referenceCrick, F. and Koch, C. (1990) published 'Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness' in Seminar in Neurosciences, 2, pp. 263-275.
claimThe authors of 'Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences' identify the work of P. Churchland & Sejnowski (1992) and F. Crick & Ch. Koch (1990) as representing the 'neuroreductionism' or 'eliminativism' position within naturalistic approaches to cognitive science.
quoteFrancis Crick stated: “You are nothing but a pack of neurons.”
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 4 facts
claimFrancis Crick and Christof Koch argue that only relations are communicable regarding experience because only relations are preserved throughout cognitive processing.
claimDavid Chalmers considers the research projects of Francis Crick, Christof Koch, Bernard Baars, and Bruce MacLennan to be compatible with his own research program regarding the hard problem of consciousness.
accountThe symposium on David Chalmers' paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' included 26 commentaries from various scholars, including Bernard Baars, Douglas Bilodeau, Patricia Churchland, Tom Clark, C.J.S. Clarke, Francis Crick, Christof Koch, Daniel Dennett, Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, Valerie Hardcastle, David Hodgson, Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Benjamin Libet, E.J. Lowe, Bruce MacLennan, Colin McGinn, Eugene Mills, Kieron O'Hara, Tom Scutt, Mark Price, William Robinson, Gregg Rosenberg, William Seager, Jonathan Shear, Henry Stapp, Francisco Varela, Max Velmans, and Richard Warner.
claimFrancis Crick and Christof Koch suggest that focusing on "meaning" is a promising starting point for addressing the hard problem of consciousness.
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Aug 24, 2023 4 facts
accountIn 1996, neuroscientist Nikos Logothetis of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics described binocular rivalry, which led Francis Crick to predict that neural correlates of consciousness would be discovered by the end of the 20th century.
claimFrancis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, legitimized consciousness as a valid topic for scientific study more than three decades ago.
referenceFrancis Crick and Christof Koch published the paper 'Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness' in 1990, which aimed to establish consciousness as a subject of scientific inquiry by focusing on visual perception.
claimFrancis Crick and Christof Koch identified visual perception as a useful tool for studying consciousness because the final link in the visual processing chain—consciousness—can be detached from the rest of the process.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimFrancis Crick and Christof Koch suggested that solving the binding problem—understanding what accounts for the unity of experience—would make it possible to solve the hard problem of consciousness empirically.
claimSince 1990, researchers including Francis Crick and Christof Koch have worked to identify neurobiological events that occur concurrently with the experience of subjective consciousness, which are referred to as neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs).
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceFrancis H. Crick authored the book 'The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul,' published by Scribners in 1994.
Psychedelics and Consciousness: Distinctions, Demarcations, and ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 1 fact
referenceFrancis Crick investigated the function of the claustrum in a paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2005).
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceFrancis Crick and Christof Koch (2005) were the first to associate the claustrum with consciousness and proposed that the neocortex is represented within the claustrum in a partial and "diluted" manner.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimScientific and philosophical research into the nature and basis of consciousness experienced a major resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, involving researchers such as Bernard Baars (1988), Daniel Dennett (1991), Roger Penrose (1989, 1994), Francis Crick (1994), William Lycan (1987, 1996), and David Chalmers (1996).