ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Computational Neurophenomenology: Explaining Concious Experiences in terms of Neural Mechanisms
How do conscious experiences depend on the brain? The CONSCIOUS project aims to make new progress on this oldest of questions by progressing from establishing correlations between patterns of brain activity and aspects of consciousness, towards developing and testing explanations in terms of neural mechanisms. By following this strategy, I believe the problem of consciousness will be dissolved rather than outright solved – similar to what happened with the study of life, decades ago. One branch of CONSCIOUS will explore what it is like to be conscious ‘at all’. Here, I will make use of the concept of ‘emergence’ – the sense in which a system’s whole can seem to be more than the sum of its…
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