Jun 18, 2004 · Some theories of consciousness stress the interpretative nature of facts about consciousness. According to such views, what is or is not conscious is not always a …

Mar 27, 2001 · After briefly reviewing its history in Western philosophy and distinguishing between various concepts of unity of consciousness, this entry focuses on contemporary analytic …

Oct 9, 2018 · Given the breadth of neuroscience so conceived, this review focuses mostly on cortical activity that sustains perceptual consciousness, with emphasis on vision. This is not …

Jul 13, 2017 · Questions about the nature of self-consciousness and, in particular, over whether there is an immediate, or intuitive, consciousness of the self, were as lively as ever well into …

Jul 29, 2010 · What is the nature of intentionality and what is its relation to consciousness? Each of these three sets of questions were taken up and developed in different directions by the …

Dec 3, 2009 · Consciousness. The fifth and last collection contains the aggregates of consciousness (vijñāna-skandha). In contrast to apperception, consciousness is defined as the …

May 23, 2001 · It is highly significant for the development of contemporary forms of panpsychism that Leibniz could find no intrinsic nature for his basic elements other than a mentalistic …

Oct 4, 2021 · Śaṅkara defines the intrinsic nature of consciousness as uniquely self-illuminating (svaprakāśa) because it does not require a second awareness for it to be known.

Unlike Descartes, however, Rand denies the “prior certainty of consciousness”, i.e., the idea that we can be aware of the contents of our own minds without knowing whether any extramental …

Jul 3, 2019 · The theory is named for Bertrand Russell, whose views about consciousness and its place in nature were informed by a structuralist conception of theoretical physics.