Are Information or Data Patterns Correlated with Consciousness?
Scientific research on consciousness is attempting to gather data about the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. The basic procedure is to measure consciousness through first-person reports, measure the physical world and look for correlations between these sets of measurements...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 225 - 240 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2016
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