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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Qualia"”.
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Functionalism, qualia, and content
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980.
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The Ontology of Mental Events: Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Categories of the Self and the Ontological Derivation of Qualia
In this dissertation I examine the relations between qualitative and quantitative aspects of perceptual experience. I do this by examining the difficulties in delineating these concepts as discrete categories as they relate to apperception; in particular, it seems that contemporary analytic …
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Dennettova kritika kválií
… criticism of the philosophical notion of qualia. First, the notion of qualia and the meaning it acquires within philosophy are introduced. Then, four thought experiments are presented to serve as an argument in favor of existence of qualia along with Dennett's reaction to these thought …
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Lessons in smelling : essays on olfactory perception
… and extent, of representational content, 2) qualia and the alleged transparency of experience and 3) the nature of the secondary qualities. In the first chapter, I consider the challenge that olfactory experience presents to upholding a representational view of the sense modalities. It is …
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Consciousness and reductive explanation : has materialism been refuted?
… attack, a defense of consciousness and qualia will be mounted.
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Montage As A Participatory System: Interactions with the Moving Image
… This arose from a desire to interrogate the qualia of the moving image within interactive systems, relative to a range of behaviours and/or observer positions, which attempt to situate users as conscious compositors. This is explored in the thesis through reflecting on a series of …
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The Contemporary Relevance of Kant’s Transcendental Psychology
… in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia, his theory of the transcendental subject is a valuable tool in unravelling the philosophical complexities that are commonplace in current theories.
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Multi-form Visualisation: An approach to acousmatic composition
… tool in this practice is the notion of sensory qualia and a blend of phenomenological and ecological views of sound and bodily centered, internally registered responses. By focusing on qualitative sensations derived from drawing, painting and sensations of motion in the natural world, parallels …
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Verbs of pure change of state in English: projection, constructions and event structure
… of representation, namely argument structure, qualia structure, event structure and lexical inheritance structure. The close analysis of those levels of representation has provided the necessary input to strengthen RRG's system of lexical representation. Furthermore, I also draw from other …
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Lectura e ideación de la escala y 'escalaje' en arquitectura : inteligencia visual que adquiere identidad en la Geografía
… space; thus makes it indistinguishable from the Qualia of architecture which cannot exist without it. A kind of individual/social psychism of dimensional desire founded on the sensefull comprehension of the own geographical space, that finely induces ‘scaling’: a manifestative and creative way of …
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Visual scientific modelling – a visual hypothesis for the nature of consciousness & the evolution of conscious awareness.
… to phenomenal properties of consciousness (e.g., Qualia, a first-person perspective, the unity of a conscious scene). Because of the diverse nature of these properties (Seth et al. 2005) useful models can be either mathematical/logical or verbal/conceptual. (Scholarpedia, n.d)" In relation to this …
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Semantic representations for spatial expressions
… Analysis as well as the argument structure, the qualia structure and co-composition from the Generative Lexicon Theory. I expect that my proposed semantic representations can distinguish between the various meanings of the spatial prepositions. These representations enable us to disambiguate the …
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Tasting light through hydrogen peroxide : molecular mechanisms and neural circuits
… consciousness, the subjective experience or qualia that distinguishes awake life from dreamless sleep. How consciousness is generated is an ancient philosophical question which has proven resistant to scientific analysis. While the human brain is known to generate consciousness, its …
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Conciencia, cualidades y fenómenos : la superación de la impotencia reductivista
El presente trabajo se propone como un análisis de las características fenomenológicas de la conciencia, y un examen de las razones del continuo fracaso por explicarlas reductivamente. Una explicación exitosa debería mostrarnos una continuidad entre el reino psíquico y el reino físico, y debería …
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Social and commercial enterprise interactions: Insights from UK business incubators
With numbers of social enterprises in the UK continuing to grow and innovate, this research responds to the scarcity of information surrounding social and commercial enterprises co-located in business incubators, and asks: how and why do social and commercial enterprises interact in a business …