The world from within: an investigation into the hard problem of consciousness from the perspective of Bayesian cognitive science
- This thesis develops a naturalist theory of phenomenal consciousness. In a first step, it is argued on phenomenological grounds that consciousness is a representational state and that explaining consciousness requires a study of the brain’s representational capacities. In a second step, Bayesian cognitive science and predictive processing are introduced as the most promising attempts to understand mental representation to date. Finally, in a third step, the thesis argues that the so-called “hard problem of consciousness” can be resolved if one adopts a form of metaphysical anti-realism that can be motivated in terms of core principles of Bayesian cognitive science.
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| Author: | Peter KuhnGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-823108 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.82310 |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Referee: | Wolfgang BarzORCiDGND, André FuhrmannGND |
| Advisor: | Wolfgang Barz |
| Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
| Date of final exam: | 2023/09/03 |
| Release Date: | 2024/03/13 |
| Page Number: | 286 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 516261932 |
| Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
