4. The Measurement of Consciousness

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11 janvier 2019

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Consciousness just is not the sort of thing that can be measured directly. What, then, do we do without a consciousness meter? How can the search go forward? How does all this experimental research proceed?I think the answer is this: we get there with principles of interpretation, by which we interpret physical systems to judge the presence of consciousness. We might call these preexperimental bridging principles. They are the criteria that we bring to bear in looking at systems to say (1) wh...

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