1st Edition
Consciousness as Complex Event Towards a New Physicalism
By Craig Delancey
Copyright 2023
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events. The text provides an accessible introduction to descriptive complexity (also known as Kolmogorov Complexity) and then applies this to show that the most... Read more
1. Complexity in Mind
2. The Inadequacy Claims
3. Strong Physicalism
4. Refuting the Anti-Physicalist Arguments
5. Subjectivity and the Sample Bias
Afterward: Consciousness as Complex Event
Biography
Craig DeLancey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York. He is the author of Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal and Mind and Artificial Intelligence (2001) and A Concise Introduction to Logic (2017).
