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Little, Eric G.

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Moderate materialism: Toward a unified ontology of consciousness.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Moderate materialism: Toward a unified ontology of consciousness./
Author:	Little, Eric G.
Description:	209 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-05, Section: A, page: 1862.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3052521
ISBN:	0493674101

Moderate materialism: Toward a unified ontology of consciousness.
Little, Eric G.

Moderate materialism: Toward a unified ontology of consciousness. - 209 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-05, Section: A, page: 1862.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002.

In this work I defend a theory called moderate materialism. Moderate materialism is an anti-reductionistic theory of mind that understands consciousness to be an emergent, but not a separable, feature of complex neurobiological systems. My thesis is that, (1) consciousness necessarily depends upon neurobiological states; but (2) consciousness is not reducible to neurobiological states, since research into neural plasticity provides evidence that conscious experiences, such as learning, facilitate neurobiological changes in organisms. A sound theory of consciousness should therefore provide an explanation of those neurobiological items that underlie conscious activities, in conjunction with an explanation of higher-level mental activities, such as intentions, that influence a number of neurobiological processes. I argue that a mereotopological theory of part-whole relations can be used to describe human beings as integral wholes, whose conscious and non-conscious parts hang together as ontologically dependent items. A theory of ontological dependence relations, specifically weak rigid dependence, provides a way to formalize how conscious states can emerge from and supervene upon neurobiological states.

ISBN: 0493674101Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Moderate materialism: Toward a unified ontology of consciousness.
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