Halpin, John F. (2024) Hard Problems, Interpretive Concepts, and Humean Laws. [Preprint]
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Conceptual problems for consciousness are analogous to the Humean’s problem with scientific laws. Just as consciousness appears to involve further facts beyond the physical, scientific laws may seem to involve a reality
beyond the Humean’s occurrent facts. But (as Ronald Dworkin stressed in a very different context, see my epigraph) interpretive truths are not a matter of such further fact. The main and novel claim of the present essay is this: Facts about consciousness arise in virtue of the brain’s own self-interpretation, an underappreciated proposal in some cognitive science of consciousness in the last decades. This self-interpretation proposal is found prominently in contemporary Bayesian-brain and Predictive Processing accounts of the brain’s generative self-modeling.
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| Additional Information: | A lightly edited version of an unpublished manuscript, 2009ish version, that just lost its long-term hosting service. | ||||||
| Keywords: | consciousness, BSA, PBSA, interpretivism, constructivism, predictive processing | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. John F. Halpin | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2024 01:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2024 01:52 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23174 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23174 |
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