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Bridging the explanatory gap from the other side
![[thoughts/images/consciousness-midjourney.png]]“Bridging the explanatory gap from the other side” @midjourney An exploration into the [[thoughts/philosophy of science|philosophy of science]]....
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Idealism
Everything is in the mind. The intrinsic nature of ultimate reality is the mind....
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Metaphysics
meta ta physika (“after the things of nature”) Ideas that can’t be reached through objective studies of material reality....
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Monism
Monism holds that ultimate reality is all of one kind and one kind only....
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Primary of Consciousness
Related: [[thoughts/consciousness|consciousness]], [[thoughts/monism#Neutral Monism|neutral monism]] Primacy of Consciousness PHIL451A Paper 3...
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Consciousness is not Information
Paper #2 for PHIL 451A Prompt 1: Is consciousness essentially a kind of information?...
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Panpsychism
Opposite take to that of Materialism. Panpsychists deny that the mind is fundamentally non-mental....
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Death
Conceptions of death in The Upanisads and Epicurueanism Death in contemporary terms1 State of being dead The momentary event of dying Ending of the dying process (denouement death): separates the dying process from the subsequent disintegration Point when extinction is assured (threshold death): irreversable loss of consciousness/personhood/functioning Medical Criteria Irreversible cessation of circulatory-respiratory function (traditionally) Irreversible cessation of the functioning of the entire brain, including the brain stem (the modern biomedical criterion) Irreversible cessation of the functioning of the cerebral cortex (newer controversial idea that the cortex is the locus of consciousness) Loss of integrated functioning (integration death) The process of dissolution (dying) Near Death Experiences (NDEs)1 Subjective experiences occurring when people are physiologically near death or when they believe themselves to be near death...
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The self
Me (self-as-object) Some feature is the object of my awareness I recognize this feature as mine or ascribe it to myself I (self-as-subject) I experience myself as subject of perception/cognition/emotion Body anchored Valid in dreams, but also games?...
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Dreams
Threefold model of consciousness1 Different brain-body processes Awareness: specific to global levels of awareness Contents of awareness: specific to consciousness of an object in a given sense field Identification: sense of the Self Hypnagogic State1 State of leading into sleep...