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Supervenience and qualia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Ken Mogi
Ken Mogi
Affiliation:
Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0022 [email protected] www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kenmogi.html www.quali-manifesto.com
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Abstract

The privileged position of neural activity in biological neuroscience might be justified on the grounds of the nonlinear and all-or-none character of neural firing. To justify the neuron doctrine in cognitive neuroscience and make it both plausible and radical, we must consider the supervenience of elementary mental properties such as qualia on neural activity.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 844 - 845
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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