Scicon Review
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A Nagelian Neurology of Consciousness?
The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility that Nagel’s well-known account has implications for understanding the neural basis of consciousness. In a world assumed to be non-dualistic, it is argued that NagelR...
Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence
In this study we investigated whether refined first-person data from trained subjects could be used to guide the detection and interpretation of neural processes. This study is an attempt to implement a research program labeled...
Some good things about Crick & Koch’s “Framework for consciousness.”
Science and Consciousness Review has just published a summary and four commentaries about the significant new article by Francis Crick and Christof Koch, titled “A framework for consciousness.” Most SCR commentaries in this...
The 10 point framework and the altogether too hard basket
The large footprints of the Crick/Koch duo at the frontier of knowledge can be a little daunting, which is why I was concerned at the very first paragraph of “A Framework for Consciousness” (1). It says that qualia are too ...
A computer-based model of Crick and Koch’s Framework for Consciousness
Recently Crick and Koch offered a “Framework for Consciousness” (2003). Pradeep Mutalik’s review of that article in SCR (Mutalik 2003) asserts that “Crick and Koch describe ten aspects of a framework that they believe o...
Comments on “A framework for consciousness”
The Missing Self, or: 10 Ways How To Be A Zombie The article by Crick and Koch is undoubtedly a first: for Nature to cave in so spectacularly to the so-called ‘Framework’ proffered to them in the name of neuroscience. But u...
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