Category Archives: Theoretical Perspective
Finding meaning in the meaningless
Agent Smith: Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect, trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! So, believing as I do that it is impossible to remove bias. I … Continue reading
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/#4.6: Mind & Matter as Dual Aspects
Emergent Properties
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art. A variety of theorists have appropriated it for their purposes ever since George Henry Lewes gave it a philosophical sense in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind. We might roughly … Continue reading
Phenomenology
& Philosophy of Mind: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#6
Teleology & Mental Content
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-teleological/ Teleological theories of mental content try to explain the contents of mental representations by appealing to a teleological notion of function. According to teleological theories of content, what a representation represents depends on the functions of the systems that … Continue reading
Functionalism [standard]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/ Functionalism is the doctrine that what makes something a thought, desire, pain (or any other type of mental state) depends not on its internal constitution, but solely on its function, or the role it plays, in the cognitive system … Continue reading