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№ 9G21

Alva Noë

Professor of Philosophy · University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CAWebsite

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ConsciousnessPhilosophy

About

Philosopher who champions the enactivist approach to perception and consciousness, arguing that consciousness is not something that happens inside the brain but is something we do through dynamic interaction with the world.

Publications

  • Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain
  • Action in Perception
  • Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
  • The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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