A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications. Kuhn, R. L. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 190:28–169, August, 2024.
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Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist land­ scape of essences and mechanisms. Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, electro­ magnetic field, computational and informational, homeostatic and affective, embodied and enactive, relational, representational, language, phylogenetic evolution); Non-Reductive Physicalism; Quantum Theories; Integrated Information Theory; Panpsychisms; Monisms; Dualisms; Idealisms; Anomalous and Altered States Theories; Challenge Theories. There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is selfdescribed by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among theories. The implications of consciousness explanations or theories are assessed with respect to four questions: meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.
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	title = {A landscape of consciousness: {Toward} a taxonomy of explanations and implications},
	volume = {190},
	issn = {00796107},
	shorttitle = {A landscape of consciousness},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0079610723001128},
	doi = {10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2023.12.003},
	abstract = {Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist land­ scape of essences and mechanisms. Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, electro­ magnetic field, computational and informational, homeostatic and affective, embodied and enactive, relational, representational, language, phylogenetic evolution); Non-Reductive Physicalism; Quantum Theories; Integrated Information Theory; Panpsychisms; Monisms; Dualisms; Idealisms; Anomalous and Altered States Theories; Challenge Theories. There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is selfdescribed by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among theories. The implications of consciousness explanations or theories are assessed with respect to four questions: meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2024-09-25},
	journal = {Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology},
	author = {Kuhn, Robert Lawrence},
	month = aug,
	year = {2024},
	pages = {28--169},
}

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