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Is it already time to give up on a science of consciousness?

✍ Scribed by Giorgio A. Ascoli

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 170 KB
Volume: 5
Category: Article
ISSN: 1076-2787
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199909/10)5:1<25::aid-cplx4>3.0.co;2-h

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Is It Already Time to Give Up on a Science of Consciousness?

A commentary on mysterianism T he end of this millennium has seen the appearance of a plethora of books, articles, reviews, conferences, and workshops on "consciousness." This movement involves philosophers, but also psychologists, neurobiologists, physicists, ethologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and thinkers from many other disciplines. The participation of so many scientists in this debate contrast sharply with the traditional view that conscious experience cannot be the object of scientific investigation because of its subjectivity, privateness, and irreplicability. Certainly it is hard (if at all possible) to approach matters such as qualia experimentally by the straightforward "Galilean" method, and an adequate epistemology needs to be developed (see, e.g. [1]). One of the main reasons for the recent wealth of scientific contributions to the consciousness debate is the fast progress of neurobiology, brain imaging, and computer science. For example, recent discoveries concerning the "code" of neural patterns, that is, the characterization of the spatial and temporal parameters by which neuronal activity represents, stores, and transmits information, have brought the discussion of what "perception" is to a more quantitative level than ever before [2][3][4]. The advancement of techniques such as multielectrode recording, functional imaging, emission tomography, and magnetoencephalography (recently reviewed in [5][6][7][8], respectively) carries the hope and the expectation that in a not-so-distant future we will have a precise mapping of the neural corre-

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