A New, 2nd Meetup on the Philosophy of Consciousness (2022) and Neuroscience

Hello everyone, this is a new 2nd Meetup on the Philosophy of Consciousness (2022) and Neuroscience. (Which I’d like to discuss at an Intermediate to Advanced level.) I’ll also encourage Participants with neuroscience knowledge to discuss relationships between neural processes and human consciousness. (Some of these may be advanced.) Now, I’ll introduce myself and my background w/ the topics, etc.
o My name is Su Turner; and I live in Kirkland, WA. Though I completed my PhD in Philosophy at U Washington; I left academia after teaching for 5 years due to politics. Then, I moved to the Eastside to work in tech.
o My dissertation was in Philosophy of Mind; and I argued that there was an intrinsic semantics in the concepts involved in logical reasoning processes. I also argued against a purely syntactic view of propositional attitudes and their inferential relationships with each other.
o I’m currently finishing a book on Phil Mind, and many readers think I should include more in-depth discussions about neuroscience. For example, some want to discuss the congruence between human mental ‘sense’ and the neural connections supporting our simple logical reasoning. Also, I’m going to give a broad review in Consciousness topics as they function in this series of Meetups.
· As an Introduction, this Meetup discusses (at least) these three basic questions:
o 1. Why Does Consciousness exist (or come to be); and can it only be generated by neural processes?
o 2. Do conscious experiences have to be caused by physical phenomena.?
o 3. Can we define human consciousness as a subjective experience?
§ (In the life of our minds’ and identified with the brain.)
· Participants can next also share their different questions, arguments, and opinions.
· We can also begin discussing these questions at a more Intermediate level, by including views of different philosophers such as Nagel and Chalmer. Nagel’s historical question about consciousness and subjective thoughts is: “What is it like to be” in a certain mental state.
· Chalmer mentions of the qualia of a cognitive state or thought. He also considers defining consciousness as a subjective experience (in the life of our minds, as identified with the brain).
· Finally, we could consider Dualism about Consciousness.