{"id":2876,"date":"2015-11-06T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2015-11-06T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:53:04","slug":"can-neuroscience-explain-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2015\/11\/06\/can-neuroscience-explain-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Can neuroscience explain consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I would define consciousness in purely computational terms and I don&#8217;t think\u00a0I&#8217;d make it dependent on the specific structure in which the computation takes place.<\/p>\n<p>eg, perhaps: &#8220;An entity is said to be &#8216;conscious&#8217; if its state changes according (at least in part) to a computational process in which the input data includes a partial model of the state of the computational process\u00a0itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2015\/11\/can-neuroscience-explain-consciousness\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=oupblogphilosophy\">Can neuroscience explain consciousness? | OUPblog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I would define consciousness in purely computational terms and I don&#8217;t think\u00a0I&#8217;d make it dependent on the specific structure in which the computation takes place. eg, perhaps: &#8220;An entity is said to be &#8216;conscious&#8217; if its state changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2015\/11\/06\/can-neuroscience-explain-consciousness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}