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Hard Problems, Interpretive Concepts, and Humean Laws

Halpin, John F. (2024) Hard Problems, Interpretive Concepts, and Humean Laws. [Preprint]

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Abstract

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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Halpin, John F.halpin@oakland.edu0000-0002-7025-495X
Additional Information: A lightly edited version of an unpublished manuscript, 2009ish version, that just lost its long-term hosting service.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
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
Date: 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23174

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