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Synchronous oscillations and the Emperor's New
Clothes?
This thread grew out the hard problem debate
in JCS. In defence of his functionalist dissolution of the problem
of phenomenal experience, Thomas
Clark cited Thomas Metzinger's chapter "Faster than Thought --
Holism, Homogeneity and Temporal Coding" in the Conscious
Experience collection. This led to an outspoken attack by Keith Sutherland
in which the term "homuphobia" was coined for the "fear
of homunculi, agents and Cartesian theatres".
Metzinger's original article has three principal threads to it: the
problem of "binding" in perception, the use of connectionist
models in cognitive theory, and the attempt to develop a "bottom-up"
theory of the self. The resulting commentaries have been classified into
three sub-sections:
The Binding Problem
- Thomas Metzinger, Faster than Thought --
Holism, Homogeneity and Temporal Coding
- Keith Sutherland, Homuphobia in the
Cartesian theatre
- Erich Harth, Comments on Metzinger
- Jim Newman, Reticular-Thalamic Activation
in the Cortex
- Valerie Gray Hardcastle, The Binding Problem
- Jim Newman, Response to Hardcastle
- Benjamin Libet, How Can we Explain the
Unity of Conscious Experience?
- Susan Greenfield, The Hitch-hiker's
Guide and the Magic Number 42
- Ron Blue, A Mathematical Oscillator
Model
Computational Theory and Connectionism
Subjectivity and the Self
Forget qualia, zombies and zimboes
- Gordon Globus, Forget qualia, zombies
and zimboes
- David Wilson, Response to Globus
- Pat Hayes, Thank the Lord for Gordon
Globus!
- Gordon Globus, Response to Goldberg,
Wilson, Hayes
- Jeff Dalton, Response to Hayes
- Roland Cichowski, It ain't that
easy!
- Roland Cook, Forget ex-perience
too!
- Gordon Globus, Nah, forget Globus
(overview and reply)
- Jim Sheridan, A philosophical
error
- Stan Klein, Colour in the mind
- Shaun Gallagher, Postmetaphysical
Postmodern Posturing
- Gordon Globus, Hello all you out
there in Maya-land
- Joe Jeffrey, Qualities and the
world
- Gordon Globus, Functionalism and
representation
- Gordon Globus, Any dang epoche!
- Paul Bains, Mental qualia v. world
qualities
- Tom Clark, Qualia and representation
- Gordon Globus, Clark's inference
to qualia
Why Now?
- Pat Hayes, Why Now?
- Stuart Hameroff, Why Now? It's About
Time!
- Huw Price, The Arrow of Time
- Roland Cook, Do We Need a New Physics?
- Rick Prescott, Biology and the
Construction of Time
- Erich Harth, The Physics of Time
- Benny Shanon, Bergson and Psychological
Time
- Peter Wilson, The Frequency of the
Present
- Peter Baggott, The Now Illusion
- Greg Nixon, Heidegger and Ecstasis
- Imrants Baruss, Multiple Nows
- Stan Klein, Time Standing Still
- Herbert Muller, Now: The Mind's
Center
- Stuart Hameroff, Time Marches On
(Stepwise)
- Various authors, Short Commentaries
on Time
The Observer in Quantum Mechanics
Contentless Awareness and the PCE
- Jonathan Shear, Ontological Implications
of the PCE
- Anthony Campbell, James and 'Over-beliefs'
- Keith Sutherland, Krishnamurti's Dog
(and Schroedinger's Cat)
- Robin Faichney, Buddhism and Subjective
Experience
- Jonathan Shear, Which is the True Buddhism?
- Mait Edey, Are Subject and Object 'One'?
- Sue Pockett, An Autoimmune Disease
of the Mind?
- Charles T. Tart, Brain Damage and the
PCE
- Peter Russell, It's a Dog's Life!
- Greg Nixon, Prisoners of Our Own Device
- Thomas J. McFarlane, Franklin
Merrell-Wolff
- Pat Hayes, How about just a partial
description?
- Jonathan Shear, For better or for worse?
- Charles Tart, State-Specific Science
- Rick Prescott, A lagniappe for the
gumbo
- Sutherland/Tart/Prescott, The New Dualists,
Gnostics and other Purveyors of Gumbo
The Hard Problem -- Short Contributions
- Herbert Muller, Presuming Mind-Independent
Reality Excludes the Mind from Reality
- Gordon Globus, Hameroff and Penrose's
Ontology
- Stuart Hameroff, Stuck Inside Spacetime
(with the Memphis Blues Again?)
- Bruce Buchanan, The Hardness of
the Hard Problem
- Robert deMallac, Response to Buchanan
- Selmer Bringsjord, Semantic Conjuring
Tricks?
- Robert deMallac, On the Silliness
of the Zombie Problem
- Jack Sarfatti, Bohm Pilot-Wave
- Jack Sarfatti, Response to Roland
Cook
- Doug Bilodeau, Organizational Invariance
- Steven Brown / Stan Klein, Panpsychism
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