| Title |
The mind-body problem in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience: a physicalist naturalist solution
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Neurological Sciences, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10072-018-3455-6 |
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| Authors |
Sandro Nannini |
| Abstract |
Using an analysis of a voluntary action caused by a visual perception, I suggest that the three fundamental characteristics of this perception (being conscious, self-conscious, and provided with a content) are neurologically implemented by three distinct higher order properties of brain dynamics. This hypothesis allows me to sketch out a physicalist naturalist solution to the mind-body problem. According to this solution, primary phenomenal consciousness is neither a non-physical substance, nor a non-physical property but simply the "format" that the brain gives to a part of its dynamics in order to obtain a fine tuning with its environment when the body acts on it. |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Unknown | 16 | 100% |
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| Student > Master | 4 | 25% |
| Other | 3 | 19% |
| Researcher | 2 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 4 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 4 | 25% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 19% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 3 | 19% |