The irreducible perspectives of consciousness.

Abstract:

:I argue that there is no mind-brain problem but rather that there are irreducible subjective-objective problems. These include the difference between "inside" and "outside" perspectives on neural states, the creation of subjective neural states with objectified outside objects, and awareness of the self as an object in the world. The origin of consciousness is traced to the development of meaning states, and I demonstrate how differing perspectives related to these states are mutually irreducible. For instance, neural states are spatiotemporally distributed when observed from the outside, while mental states are unified when experienced from the inside; from the inside neural states are experienced as outside of themselves; and qualia have a material reality only from the inside. Rather than positing a special substance or immaterial process theory of consciousness, it is argued that the apparent immateriality of mind is an artifact of the nature of the phenomenon and of the process of observation itself.

journal_name

Semin Neurol

journal_title

Seminars in neurology

authors

Feinberg TE

doi

10.1055/s-2008-1040917

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-06-01 00:00:00

pages

85-93

issue

2

eissn

0271-8235

issn

1098-9021

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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