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First-order embodiment, second-order embodiment, third-order embodimentIn Lawrence Shapiro (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge. 2014.
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346The Elephant and the Blind is a book about why we need a new culture of consciousness, and how to get it. A culture of consciousness (or Bewusstseinskultur) is a culture that values and cultivates the mental states of its members in an ethical and evidence-based way.
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37Unconscious integration of multisensory bodily inputs in the peripersonal space shapes bodily self-consciousnessCognition 166 (C): 174-183. 2017.
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Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examplesIn Rahul Banerjee & Bikas K. Chakrabarti (eds.), Models of brain and mind: physical, computational, and psychological approaches, Elsevier. 2008.
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722Artificial Suffering: An Argument for a Global Moratorium on Synthetic PhenomenologyJournal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 1 (8): 1-24. 2021.
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162Minimal phenomenal experiencePhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 1 (I): 1-44. 2020.This is the first in a series of instalments aiming at a minimal model explanation for conscious experience, taking the phenomenal character of “pure consciousness” or “pure awareness” in meditation as its entry point. It develops the concept of “minimal phenomenal experience” as a candidate for the simplest form of consciousness, substantiating it by extracting six semantic constraints from the existing literature and using sixteen phenomenological case-studies to incrementally flesh out the ne…Read more
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582Radical disruptions of self-consciousnessPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 1 (I): 1-13. 2020.This special issue is about something most of us might find very hard to conceive: states of consciousness in which self-consciousness is radically disrupted or altogether missing.
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8Zeitfenster im Gehirn und die Einheit des Bewußtseins. Der Zusammenhang zwischen phänomenalem Bewußtsein und subsymbolischer InformationsverarbeitungIn Hans Lenk & Hans Poser (eds.), Neue Realitäten. Herausforderung der Philosophie: Xvi. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie Berlin 20.–24. September 1993, De Gruyter. pp. 246-260. 1995.
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21Open Mind: An Open Access Collection of Research on Mind, Brain, andJournal of Consciousness Studies 22 (7-8): 233-234. 2015.
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2Open MIND Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. Volume 2, (edited book)MIT Press. 2016.
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1322Before one can even begin to model consciousness and what exactly it means that it is a subjective phenomenon one needs a theory about what a first-person perspective really is. This theory has to be conceptually convincing, empirically plausible and, most of all, open to new developments. The chosen conceptual framework must be able to accommodate scientific progress. Its ba- sic assumptions have to be plastic as it were, so that new details and empirical data can continuously be fed into the t…Read more
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265Conscious Experience (edited book)Ferdinand Schoningh. 1995.The contributions to this book are original articles, representing a cross-section of current philosophical work on consciousness and thereby allowing students and readers from other disciplines to acquaint themselves with the very latest debate, so that they can then pursue their own research interests more effectively. The volume includes a bibliography on consciousness in philosophy, cognitive science and brain research, covering the last 25 years and consisting of over 1000 entries in 18 the…Read more
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76This book contains a representationalist theory of self-consciousness and of the phenomenal first-person perspective. It draws on empirical data from the cognitive and neurosciences.
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963Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-TechnologyFrontiers in Robotics and AI 3 1-23. 2016.The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete recommendations for minimizing those risks. Many of the recommendations call for focused research initiatives. In the first part of the article, we discuss the relevant evidence from psychology that motivates our concerns. In Section “Plasticity in the Human Mind,” we cover some of the main results suggesting t…Read more
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3448Vanilla PP for Philosophers: A Primer on Predictive ProcessingPhilosophy and Predictive Processing. 2017.The goal of this short chapter, aimed at philosophers, is to provide an overview and brief explanation of some central concepts involved in predictive processing (PP). Even those who consider themselves experts on the topic may find it helpful to see how the central terms are used in this collection. To keep things simple, we will first informally define a set of features important to predictive processing, supplemented by some short explanations and an alphabetic glossary. The features describe…Read more
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3321The Problem of Mental ActionPhilosophy and Predicitive Processing. 2017.In mental action there is no motor output to be controlled and no sensory input vector that could be manipulated by bodily movement. It is therefore unclear whether this specific target phenomenon can be accommodated under the predictive processing framework at all, or if the concept of “active inference” can be adapted to this highly relevant explanatory domain. This contribution puts the phenomenon of mental action into explicit focus by introducing a set of novel conceptual instruments and de…Read more
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Empirische Perspektiven aus Sicht der Selbstmodell-Theorie der Subjektivitaeat: Eine Kurzdarstellung mit BeispielenStudia Z Kognitywistyki I Filozofii Umysłu 7 (1). 2013.
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964The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy.Frontiers in Psychology 4 931. 2013.This metatheoretical paper investigates mind wandering from the perspective of philosophy of mind. It has two central claims. The first is that, on a conceptual level, mind wandering can be fruitfully described as a specific form of mental autonomy loss. The second is that, given empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is better analyzed as a subpersonal process that more often than not lacks crucial properties traditionally taken to be the hallmark of personal-level cogn…Read more
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119Conscious volition and mental representation: Toward a more fine-grained analysisIn Natalie Sebanz & Wolfgang Prinz (eds.), Disorders of Volition, Mit Press. 2006.<b>A Bradford Book</b> <b>The MIT Press</b> <b>Cambridge, Massachusetts</b> <b>London, England</b>
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19Reply to Weisberg: No direction home—searching for neutral groundPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 12. 2006.I have learned a lot from Josh Weisberg’s substantial criticism in his well-crafted and systematic commentary. Unfortunately, I have to concede many of the points he intelligently makes. But I am also flattered by the way he ultimately uses his criticism to emphasize some of those aspects of the theory that can perhaps possibly count as exactly the core of my own genuine contribution to the problem—and nicely turns them back against myself. And I am certainly grateful for a whole range of helpfu…Read more
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20Appearance is not knowledge: The incoherent straw man, content-content confusions and mindless conscious subjectsJournal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 67-71. 2004.
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34Review (review)Erkenntnis 29 (1): 143-146. 1988.As Flanagan remarks at the outset, many philosophers and researchers in the cognitive and neurosciences today believe that a naturalistic solution to the mind-body problem will eventually be found. Optimistic attitudes of this sort are usually inspired by the remarkable theoretical success so far achieved under the information-processing approach. The information-processing approach rests on a number of ubiquitous background assumptions. The most central of these is that treating human beings an…Read more
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217This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is...
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