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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness (Hardcover)
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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness (Hardcover)
Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
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There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness.
Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and
metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive
science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an
increasing number of studies have either implicitly or explicitly
begun to bear on its nature. These have been inspired by a number
of different different original questions, and focus on a variety
of different empirical phenomena. Thus, studies of implicit memory,
subliminal processing, strategic versus automatic processing,
allocation of attention, and differences between information
processes in the awake versus dreaming state all share a common
assumption of a particular quality or state -- awakeness,
awareness, alertness, namely consciousness -- that somehow can be
distinguished from another type of state or states in which the
subject is not aware of the information being processed. What
distinguishes the cognitive psychological and cognitive
neuroscience approach to the question of consciousness from that of
philosophy and metaphysics is scientific methodology: a set of
tools that permit the empirical study of a phenomenon in an
objective and reproducible way. Recent developments in both the
empirical and theoretical methodologies of these fields have made
it possible to begin to study the phenomenon associated with -- if
not directly underlying -- consciousness in a scientific fashion.
This volume tries to resolve the difficulties associated with the
scientific investigation of consciousness. The intent is to explore
the extent to which consciousness can be the target of direct
scientific inquiry, to get on the table some of the relevant work,
and consider the degree to which this research can help inform our
understanding of consciousness. It brings together a group of
cognitive and neuroscientists to share relevant recent research in
the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience and to determine
whether any new strategies for the scientific pursuit of this
question can be developed. A long-term goal is the development of a
unified understanding of consciousness, scientific as well as
philosophical perspectives. This volume takes the first step toward
building the necessary local bridges.
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