new blogpost: why i am not a biopsychist https://inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-i-am-not-biopsychist.html … if u have to choose between these two positions for consciousness (see the blogpost for what they are), which one would you choose?
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Replying to @hakwanlau
Great post! I think it's worth teasing consciousness apart from self-consciousness--the latter requiring social institution and a chunk of prefrontal cortex. Not sure but I think
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Maybe. I would probably argue for this in a way that’s pretty different from Evan though. I would say that there’s a kind of meta-awareness that uses a lot of neural real estate to monitor & compare internal conflicts, and calibrate internal models against worldly encounters +
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Interesting. Seems to me that stuff has to be going on in all consciousness, not just self-consciousness by which I mean (watch me struggle with this) ascriptions of consciousness to self and others and ascription of ascription by self and others.
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[1] I think the sense of self involving autobiographical memory and the impression of being a continuous person with a core identity through time gets constructed out of social cognition (à la Mead, Vygotsky, Tomasello)
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[2] So it will depend on neural networks for metacognition (among other things)
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[3] But biopsychism is about sentience, the feeling of being alive. Biopsychism proposes this is basic to all life (and maybe only life, though "life" has to be appropriately specified)
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This is why I see the view I am defending as a variant of biopsychism. But I think this view provides an answer to a different kind of question than is typically centered in discussions about the mechanisms of conscious experience. This is what I’m trying to puzzle through...
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