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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Historical review 3 The problem of consciousness 4 Contemporary explanations of consciousness 5 Other explanations of consciousness

[edit] Introduction

• Introduction

[edit] Historical review

• Early ideas
• Medieval concepts
• Seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy
• Nineteenth to twenty first century philosophy

[edit] The problem of consciousness

• What needs to be explained: the description and definition of consciousness
• The conflict - where, when and what?
  • The regression argument
  • The subject-object paradox
  • The homunculus argument
  • Phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness
  • Direct Realism
  • Indirect Realism
  • Dualism
  • Idealism
  • Panpsychism
• Breaking down the philosophical and scientific problems
  • The philosophical problem
  • Epiphenomenalism and the problem of change
  • The problem of time
  • The problem of space
  • The problem of qualia
  • Elementary Information and Information Systems Theory
  • Classification, signs, sense, relations, supervenience etc.
  • The problem of machine and digital consciousness
• Measurement in physics and the preferred basis problem

[edit] Contemporary explanations of consciousness

• Contemporary explanations of consciousness
  • The identity theory of mind
    • Scientific theories
  • Functionalism
  • Dualism
  • Intentionalism
  • Higher order thought
  • Eliminativism
  • Mysterianism
  • Idealism and panpsychism

[edit] Other explanations of consciousness

• Consciousness-only
• BioPsychoSociology Model 1 BPS Model