Papers by Pete Cumberland
Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism 1
These are old David Chalmers papers
In recent years there has been an explosion of scientific work on consciousness in cognitive neur... more In recent years there has been an explosion of scientific work on consciousness in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and other fields. It has become possible to think that we are moving toward a genuine scientific understanding of conscious experience. But what is the science of consciousness all about, and what form should such a science take? This chapter gives an overview of the agenda. 1 First-person Data and Third-person Data The task of a science of consciousness, as I see it, is to systematically integrate two key classes of data into a scientific framework: third-person data, or data about behavior and brain processes, and first-person data, or data about subjective experience. When a conscious system is observed from the third-person point of view, a range of specific behavioral and neural phenomena present themselves. When a conscious system is observed from the firstperson point of view, a range of specific subjective phenomena present themselves. Both sorts of phenomena have the status of data for a science of consciousness. Third-person data concern the behavior and the brain processes of conscious systems. These behavioral and neurophysiological data provide the traditional material of interest for cognitive psychology and of cognitive neuroscience. Where the science of consciousness is concerned, some particularly relevant third-person data are those having to do with the following: • Perceptual discrimination of external stimuli • The integration of information across sensory modalities • Automatic and voluntary actions Published in (M. Gazzaniga, ed) The Cognitive Neurosciences III. MIT Press, 2004.
CONSCIOUSNESS, the subjective experience of an inner self, poses one of the greatest challenges t... more CONSCIOUSNESS, the subjective experience of an inner self, poses one of the greatest challenges to neuroscience. Even a detailed knowledge of the brain's workings and the neural correlates of consciousness may fail to explain how or why human beings have self-aware minds.
This paper is a response to the commentaries in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on my paper ... more This paper is a response to the commentaries in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on my paper "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." I have written it so that it can be understood independently of the commentaries, however, and so that it provides a detailed elaboration and extension of some of the ideas in the original paper.
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