Phenomenal Consciousness
From this article on Scientific American:The new field of experimental philosophy introduces a novel twist on this traditional approach. Experimental philosophers continue the search to understand people’s ordinary intuitions, but they do so using the methods of contemporary cognitive science (see also here and here)—experimental studies, statistical analyses, cognitive models, and so forth. Just in the past year or so, a number of researchers have been applying this new approach to the study of intuitions about consciousness. By studying how people think about three different types of abstract entities—a corporation, a robot and a God—we can better understand how people think about the mind.
It seems another way of introducing materialistic methods into philosophy to me.
It's just like saying that answering questions like
Is the European Union feeling happiness/pain for the result of the referendum in Ireland?
Or Is the European Union prepared to confront the challenge of a greater and deeper integration among its States?
would make better understand the nature of European Citizen (if there will ever be one).
Labels: God's Mind, Man's Soul, Questions
posted by Galilei @ 8:02 pm
