Do you believe that consciousness is entirely a result of physical processes (Materialism), or do you think it involves non-physical elements as well?
0.2Do you think consciousness is primarily an internal process within the mind or brain (Internalism), or is it significantly shaped by interactions with the environment (Externalism)?
0.8How important do you think self-awareness and introspection are to the nature of consciousness? Would you rate their importance as high, medium, or low?
0.9Do you view consciousness as an ecological system property at the "Transactional Handshake" of future back-propagating "advanced" waves with forward "retarded" waves. (Ecological Dual Fields), or do you believe it is a property of the individual with feed forward causality alone?
0.3How much do you think the subjective, qualitative aspects of experience (what it is like to be someone) are central to understanding consciousness? Would you rate their importance as high, medium, or low?
0.7Cosine Distance | Philosopher | School of Thought | Materialism | Internalism | Self-awareness | DualField | Subjective Experience |
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0.0 | Daniel Dennett | Eliminative Materialism | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
0.0 | David Chalmers | Property Dualism | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
0.0 | Patricia Churchland | Neurophilosophy | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
0.0 | Thomas Nagel | Philosophy of Mind | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
0.0 | John Searle | Biological Naturalism | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
0.0 | Hilary Putnam | Functionalism | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
0.0 | Galen Strawson | Panpsychism | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
0.0 | Susan Blackmore | Memetics | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
0.0 | Stephen Guerin | Dual Consciousness | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Stuart Kauffman | Dual Consciousness | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
0.0 | Wang Yangming | Neo-Confucianism | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
0.0 | Chu Hsi (Zhu Xi) | Neo-Confucianism | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
0.0 | Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) | Daoism | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Lao Tzu (Laozi) | Daoism | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Confucius | Confucianism | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
0.0 | Alfred North Whitehead | Panpsychism | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Thomas Aquinas | Christian Scholasticism | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 |
0.0 | Al-Ghazali | Islamic Philosophy | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Maimonides | Jewish Philosophy | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
0.0 | Adi Shankaracharya | Advaita Vedanta | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Nagarjuna | Madhyamaka | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
0.0 | Guru Nanak | Sikhism | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.8 |