Neural Synchrony and the Causal Efficacy of Consciousness.
The purpose of this paper is to address a well-known dilemma for physicalism. If mental properties are type identical to physical properties, then their causal efficacy is secure, but at the cost of ruling out mentality in creatures very different to ourselves. On the other hand, if mental propertie...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 1057 - 1073 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=146680946&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 146680946 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01677411 NM2 jtl: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy issn: 01677411 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2020 vid: 39 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 146680946 10.1007/s11245-018-9596-7 ppf: 1057 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Neural Synchrony and the Causal Efficacy of Consciousness. aug: au: Yates, David affil: Centro de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal su: Consciousness Synchronic order Materialism Dilemma sug: subj: Consciousness Synchronic order Materialism Dilemma keyword: Causal inheritance principle Downward causation Phenomenal consciousness Powerful qualities Representationalism Synchronous oscillation ab: The purpose of this paper is to address a well-known dilemma for physicalism. If mental properties are type identical to physical properties, then their causal efficacy is secure, but at the cost of ruling out mentality in creatures very different to ourselves. On the other hand, if mental properties are multiply realizable, then all kinds of creatures can instantiate them, but then they seem to be causally redundant. The causal exclusion problem depends on the widely held principle that realized properties inherit their causal powers from their realizers. While this principle holds for functional realization, it fails on a broader notion of realization that permits the realization of complex qualitative properties such as spatial and temporal patterns. Such properties are best seen as dependent powerful qualities, which have their causal roles in virtue of being the qualities they are, and do not inherit powers from their realizers. Recent studies have identified one such property—neural synchrony—as a correlate of consciousness. If synchrony is also partially constitutive of consciousness, then phenomenal properties are both multiply realizable and causally novel. I outline a version of representationalism about consciousness on which this constitution claim holds. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy is a copyright of Springer, 2020. All Rights Reserved. item: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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