A Couple of Quick Announcements

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@andystewart9701 9 ай бұрын

Congrats on the book. Keep us posted because I want to read it! Hope you have a great semester. I have really enjoyed your videos and have enjoyed looking into the work of some of your guests. I appreciated the office hours and your answers to questions. Looking forward to any future videos if and when you post any.

@onemorebrown 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate it!

@rooruffneck 9 ай бұрын

What's the title and the subject matter? Any chance we could see a table of contents? I know, we are greedy.

@onemorebrown 8 ай бұрын

Here is the TOC Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Introduction 4 Everyone Should Care about Higher-Order Theories 4 Organization of the Book 8 1. Constructing a Scientific Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness 20 1.1. Kinds of Consciousness 20 1.1.1. Phenomenal Consciousness and our Cast of Characters 20 1.1.2. Creature Consciousness 24 1.1.3. Awareness 26 1.1.4. State Consciousness 28 1.1.5. Self and Introspective Consciousness 30 1.1.6. Access Consciousness 31 1.2. 99 problems, but is consciousness one? 32 1.2.1. Consciousness Might have been Physical All Along 33 1.2.2. Illusionism 33 1.3. Hard, Harder, Hard Enough: Problems Proliferate 36 1.3.1. The Central Challenge of Consciousness Science 38 2. The Higher-Order Representation of a Representation (HOROR) Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness 40 2.1. Higher-Order Theories of Phenomenal Consciousness 40 2.1.1. First-Order Theories and Inner Awareness 41 2.1.2. Marking the Mental 43 2.2. Higher-Order Representationalism 45 2.2.1. Inner Awareness as Higher-Order Representation 45 2.3. The Higher-Order Representation of a Representation (HOROR) Theory 47 2.3.1. Separating State-Consciousness from Phenomenal Consciousness 49 2.3.2. A HORORibly Simple Argument 51 2.4. The Structural Elements of HORORs 52 2.4.1. Phenomenally Silent and Active Contents 53 2.4.2. Concepts/Intentionality 54 2.4.3. Mental Pointers 54 3. The Contents of HORORs 57 3.1. Subjective Character: The Higher-Order Mental Analogue of ‘I’ 58 3.1.1. Perspectival De Se Content? 61 3.2. Phenomenal Character: The Concept of Seeing Red 62 3.2.1. The Concept of Perceptible Red 63 3.2.2. The Concept of Visual Awareness 63 3.2.3. Meeting the Meta Challenge 65 3.3. Some predictions of the HOROR Theory 66 3.3.1. Mismatch cases on HOROR 66 3.3.2. Phenomenology: Sparse or Rich? 69 3.3.3. Rich and Sparse HOROR 71 3.4. HOROR theory for Introspective Consciousness 73 3.4.1. The Traditional Higher-Order theory of Introspection 73 3.4.2. Introspection and Transparency 74 3.4.3. HORIFIC: Higher-Order Representation Intentionally for Introspective Consciousness 76 4. HOROR in the Brain 78 4.1. The Empirical Motivation for HOROR 78 4.2. Mapping Psychological States to Neural States 80 4.2.1. Inner Awareness and the Prefrontal Cortices 80 4.2.2. Perception and the Sensory Cortices 82 4.2.3. Neural Coding of HORORs 82 4.2.4. Higher-Order Non-Conceptual States? 84 4.3. How to Empirically Test HOROR 85 4.3.1. Neurally Implementing HOROR 85 4.3.2. Computationally Implementing HOROR 87 4.4. The Status of the Current Empirical Case for and against HOROR 88 4.4.1. Subjective Inflation 92 5. The Traditional Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness 96 5.1. The Traditional Higher-Order Approach and the Transitivity Principle 97 5.2. Relational versus Non-relational Readings of the Traditional Transitivity Principle 99 5.2.1. Misrepresentation and the Different Versions of Relational and Non-Relational Theories 100 5.2.2. Two Versions of Non-Relationalism: Pure and Mixed 102 5.2.3. Two Versions of Relationalism: Spotlight and Joint-Determination 103 5.2.4. The Kinds of Higher-Order Theory 105 5.3. Reasons for Non-Traditionally Presenting Higher-Order Theories 106 5.3.1. Does the Transitivity Principle Fix the Data for a Science of Consciousness? 107 5.3.2. The Commitment to Unconscious Mental States 108 5.3.3. Is the explanatory target the same as other theories of consciousness? 109 6. Non-Relational Versions of Traditional Higher-Order Theories 111 6.1. Pure Non-relationalism: Higher-Order Thought Theory 111 6.1.1. Radical Misrepresentation: Not Enough Conscious States 112 6.1.2. Garden Variety Misrepresentation: Too Many Conscious States 114 6.1.3. The Self 118 6.2. Mixed Non-Relationalism 119 6.2.1. Self-Representationalism 119 6.2.2. The Wide Intentionality View 121 6.3. Comparing HOROR and Traditional Non-Relationalism 124 6.3.1. Rejecting the Transitivity Principle is Bad, M’kay? 124 6.3.2. Differing Empirical Predictions? 126 7. Relational Versions of Traditional Higher-Order Theories 129 7.1. Hellie and Chalmers: Qualia + Acquaintance 130 7.2. Contemporary Spotlight Views 131 7.2.1. Acquaintance + First-Order Representations 131 7.2.2. Mental Quotation 133 7.2.3. Attentional ‘sifting’ 135 7.2.4. Dual Content Theory 137 7.2.5. Perceptual Reality Monitoring 137 7.3. Joint-Determination Views 142 7.3.1. Higher-Order Perception theory 142 7.3.2. Higher-Order State Space Model 143 7.4. Comparing HOROR and Relational versions of Traditional Higher-Order Theories 145 7.4.1. Differing Empirical Predictions? 145 8. Conclusion 149 Appendix 1: The 2D argument against Non-Physicalism 150 Acknowledgements 153 Work Cited 154

@dosesandmimoses 7 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your book!

@olga23412 9 ай бұрын

Congrats on the book 🎉 the reacts are my fav content. React to a talk, react to a paper etc

@onemorebrown 8 ай бұрын

I forgot to mention that I plan on doing some more reacts! Thanks!

@jedser 9 ай бұрын

Oxford is not trash! I’m excited for you and I look forward to it!

@jedser 9 ай бұрын

I have suggestion for continuing your Consciousness Live sessions. Have you ever thought of interviewing the NDE people's view of consciousness, like Bruce Greyson or Jim Tucker or Sam Parnia? They aren't as woo as they might seem. They can enrich thought experiments, in the least

@onemorebrown 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate it!

@onemorebrown 8 ай бұрын

I'll put them on the list!

@dosesandmimoses 7 ай бұрын

I pity the fool!