2024/02/28 by Johannes Kleiner · 1 voice · 2 citations
Neuroscience · #Cognitive Science and Education Research #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Neural dynamics and brain function
paper · doi:10.1016/j.concog.2024.103653
openalex publication_date 2024/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalisations of conscious experiences are replaced by structural tools, most notably mathematical spaces. My goal here is to offer three comments that, in my opinion, are essential to avoid misunderstandings in these developments early on. These comments concern metaphysical premises of structural approaches, the viability of structure-preserving mappings, and the question of what a structure of conscious experience is in the first place. I will also explain what, in my opinion, are the great promises of structural methodologies and how they might impact consciousness science at large.