Category theory in consciousness science: going beyond the correlational project.
We discuss the potential of applying category theory to the study of consciousness. We first review a recent proposal from the neurosciences of consciousness to illustrate the “correlational project”, using the integrated information theory of consciousness as an example. We then discuss some techni...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Aug2024
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