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21From Chaos to Qualia: An Analysis of Phenomenal Character in Light of Process Philosophy and Self-Organizing SystemsDissertation, Kent State University. 2010.Recent advances in our understanding of complex dynamical systems may be of interest to philosophers seeking the best metaphysical grounds for understanding the qualitative character of subjective experience (qualia). In this thesis I will propose that qualia are not specifically brain processes, but are instead best thought of as world processes that can be characterized as distributed self-organizing networks of Whiteheadian actual entities. On this Whiteheadian model, different aspects of a q…Read more
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Kent State UniversityGraduate student
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |