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A better metaphor for understanding consciousness?

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  • Urban Kordes

    (Faculty of Education – University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

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The article is an attempt at – yet once again – finding a source of more fitting metaphor for the study of consciousness inside the framework of quantum mechanics. It starts by doubting into the possibility of the naturalization of research of experience. Proceeding from that it searches for a more adequate way to implement Varela’s idea about a balanced bridging the explanatory gap. By comparing certain positions of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanical phenomena with the properties of introspection, it tries to point out that there might exist better epistemic positions for understanding consciousness than the ones most frequently used today.

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  • Urban Kordes, 2015. "A better metaphor for understanding consciousness?," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 13(4), pages 525-533.
    • Handle: RePEc:zna:indecs:v:13:y:2015:i:4:p:525-533
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    Cited by:

    1. Toma Strle, 2018. "Looping Minds: How Cognitive Science Exerts Influence on Its Findings," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 16(4), pages 533-544.
    2. Florian Klauser & Urban Kordes, 2018. "Loops and Recursions in Cognitive Science: Cross-Roads between Methodology and Epistemology," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 16(4), pages 524-532.
    3. Olga Markic, 2017. "Extended Cognition: Feedback Loops and Coupled Systems," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 15(4), pages 270-280.

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    Keywords

    introspection; phenomenology; quantum mechanics; probing; measurement;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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