Consciousness as Complex Event (e-bog) af Delancey, Craig
Delancey, Craig (forfatter)

Consciousness as Complex Event e-bog

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Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events. The text provides an accessible introduction to descriptive complexity (also known as Kolmogorov Complexity) and then applies this to show that the most i...
E-bog 348,37 DKK
Forfattere Delancey, Craig (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 9 september 2022
Længde 168 sider
Genrer HPJ
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781000649741
Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events. The text provides an accessible introduction to descriptive complexity (also known as Kolmogorov Complexity) and then applies this to show that the most influential arguments against physicalism about consciousness are unsound. The text also offers an accessible review of the current debates about consciousness and introduces a rigorous new conception of physicalism. It concludes with a positive program for the future study of phenomenal experience. It is readable and compact and will be of interest to philosophers and cognitive scientists, and of value to advanced students of philosophy.Key FeaturesProvides a new approach to the study of consciousness, using information theory.Offers a valuable discussion of physicalism, of use in other disciplines.Contains an introduction to the main literature and arguments in the debate about consciousness.Includes an accessible overview of how to apply descriptive complexity to philosophical problems.