Publication details
Mysl autentická, anebo "jen" neurálně odvozená (a epifenomenalistická)?
| Title in English | Mind, as Authetic, or "Only" Neurally Deduced (and Epiphenomenalistic)? |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Kognice 2006 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | mind; Cartesian Theatre; physicalism; interactionism; epiphenomenalism; Identity Theory; supervenience; emergence; anomalous monism; AI; brain plasticity; reduction (to a physiological substrate); readiness potential; boundary (between brain and a non-biological installation); free will; sense of life |
| Description | This contribution contains five parts and has been substantially reduced for this printing. First, the text touches the linguistic and historical back-ground of the subject area. An overview follows, showing a disguised dualism even in monistically declared "-isms". The third part shows some suggestive (and confusing) associations accompanying ideas about our psyche. Then some neurological inspirations have been mentioned, together with the hinting at a certain brain plasticity, prerequisites for a free will, and experiences with the boundary between biological and technological means of human activity. Finally, our "mentality" goes over the horizon of the material world, but we have still been explaining our subjective experience of self-consciousness no better than by reducing it to physiological processes, i.e., not adequately. |