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institute:center-for-mind-brain-and-consciousnessCenter for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers
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- David Chalmersaffiliated_with
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- Affiliation of Joshua Tenenbaum; bridges cognitive and computational modeling.
- Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
- Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
- The conventional biological substrate assumed necessary for consciousness.
- Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
- Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
- Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.