Subjective Holism and the Problem of Consciousness.

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 پژوهشگر در دانشگاه ادیان و مذاهب، قم، ایران.

2 گروه فلسفه، دانشکده الهیات، دانشکدگان فارابی دانشگاه تهران

10.22091/jptr.2024.10773.3062

چکیده

How does unconscious matter become conscious? How does our physical part, which lacks consciousness, have such a subjective quality? This is the explanatory gap in the problem of consciousness or the hard problem of consciousness which comes from a physicalist (eliminativist physicalism) point of view. From the opposite point of view, i.e. dualism, the mind-body problem has led to the problem of consciousness and the explanation of how our unconscious physical (matter) part (substance) is related to our conscious mental part (substance). If the problem of consciousness is the result of such views (eliminativism and dualism), is it possible to adopt a different perspective so that the problem does not arise at all? Or find a solution for it (maximum answer) or at least determine the right way to solve the problem (minimum answer)? The current research goes to this issue by adopting subjectivism and holism to make its subjective holism theory. Therefore, it gives a positive (maximum and minimum) answer to the above questions.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Subjective Holism and the Problem of Consciousness.

نویسندگان [English]

  • Siamak Abdollahi 1
  • Mansour Nasiri 2
1 Research Fellow at Department of Philosophy, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.
2 Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran.
چکیده [English]

How does unconscious matter become conscious? How does our physical part, which lacks consciousness, have such a subjective quality? This is the explanatory gap in the problem of consciousness or the hard problem of consciousness which comes from a physicalist (eliminativist physicalism) point of view. From the opposite point of view, i.e. dualism, the mind-body problem has led to the problem of consciousness and the explanation of how our unconscious physical (matter) part (substance) is related to our conscious mental part (substance). If the problem of consciousness is the result of such views (eliminativism and dualism), is it possible to adopt a different perspective so that the problem does not arise at all? Or find a solution for it (maximum answer) or at least determine the right way to solve the problem (minimum answer)? The current research goes to this issue by adopting subjectivism and holism to make its subjective holism theory. Therefore, it gives a positive (maximum and minimum) answer to the above questions.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Holism
  • Subjectivism
  • Problem of Consciousness
  • Explanatory Gap
  • Explanatory Power
  • Downward Causation
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