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In consciousness science, there is widespread disagreement about the way consciousness should be operationalised and the kinds of data that are relevant for theory development and critique.
“Such advantages may be particularly apt for driving progress in a field such as consciousness science (Corcoran et al., 2023), where there is widespread disagreement about the way consciousness should be operationalised and the kinds of data that are relevant for theory development and critique (Francken et al., 2022; Irvine, 2017; Yaron et al., 2022).”
From Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review (2026) · cites this paper as Irvine, 2017
The lack of consensus about the relevant phenomena for a scientific theory of consciousness is likely a product of vastly divergent intuitions about which features of mental life should be included within a scientific conception of consciousness.
“This lack of consensus is perhaps somewhat surprising given our own intimate acquaintance with conscious experience (Chalmers, 1996; Wiese, 2018), but likely a product of vastly divergent intuitions about which features of mental life should be included within a scientific conception of consciousness (and how they ought to be operationalised for scientific investigation; Irvine, 2017; Phillips, 20”
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- Authors
- Irvine, E.
- Affiliations
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Irvine, Elizabeth
- ORCID
- Irvine, Elizabeth
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- 36
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- 1
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- 95-106
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- hard problem of consciousness, materialism, consciousness studies, phenomenal consciousness, philosophy of mind
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