Consciousness as Complex Event

Provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events.

Craig DeLancey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York. He is the author of Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal and Mind and Artificial Intelligence (2001) and A Concise Introduction to Logic (2017).

1. Complexity in Mind, 2. The Inadequacy Claims, 3. Strong Physicalism, 4. Refuting the Anti-Physicalist Arguments, 5. Subjectivity and the Sample Bias, Afterward: Consciousness as Complex Event