Index
access consciousness. See phenomenal and access consciousness
anaesthetics 173
animal consciousness 117, 121, 130, 173
artificial consciousness. See machine consciousness
artificial intelligence 83, 123, 142
assumptions for the measurement of consciousness 3, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 58, 59, 60, 151
bat consciousness 117, 118, 122
behaviour associated with consciousness. See conscious behaviour
brain in a vat 55
brain measurement technology 152
brain modification technology 130
bubble of experience 12, 126, 155
bubble of perception 11
Cartesian theatre 165
causation 56
CC set 54, 74, 80, 86, 89, 90, 108, 110, 116, 129, 130, 136, 137, 141
c-description 65, 115, 119, 129, 132, 137, 139
colour inversion 50
computational discovery of theories of consciousness 83
computation c-theory 106
concept of consciousness 26, 167, 176
consciousness, definition of. See definition of consciousness
conservative deduction 121, 131
constraints on theories of consciousness 73
contents of consciousness 27, 126
context 71. See also physical context
correlates of consciousness 73, 74, 79. See also CC set
c-report 45, 48, 49, 56, 59, 73, 86, 101, 118, 141, 175, 176
c-theory 79, 82, 113, 115, 116, 119, 129, 137, 139, 153
data 95
deduction 118. See also conservative deduction, liberal deduction
definition of consciousness 26
description of consciousness. See c-description
description of physical world. See p-description
drug-induced experiences 11, 126
dualism 151
e-causation 57, 58, 73, 86, 99
effective connectivity 60, 87, 153, 168
enhancement of consciousness 126, 129
epiphenomenalism 151
ethical issues 119, 142, 144, 146
existential threat to humanity 142
experiments on consciousness 48, 49, 61, 63, 74, 76, 88, 98, 100, 111, 113, 115, 119, 150, 170
eye movements 61
first-person report 43, 50, 176. See also c-report
functional connectivity 48, 55, 87, 168, 174
functionalism. See computation c-theory
general-purpose computer 104
global workspace theory 87
hallucination 13
hard problem of consciousness 36, 38, 41, 149
imagination 34, 36, 38, 52, 81, 82, 118, 154
implantation of chip in brain 77, 101, 131, 140, 179
implementation of computation 110
information c-theory 97
information entropy 96
information integration theory of consciousness 65, 87, 98
information processing 93, 109, 110
intrinsic property 73, 86, 100, 178
inverted qualia. See colour inversion
invisible physical world 13, 16, 22, 26, 37, 69
language. See natural language
level of consciousness 29, 126, 167
limitations of this interpretation of consciousness 54, 64, 78, 117, 119, 140, 152, 153
machine consciousness 72, 117, 121, 123, 135
material 85, 86, 89, 101, 121, 140
MC1 machine consciousness 136, 142, 144
MC2 machine consciousness 136
MC3 machine consciousness 136
MC4 machine consciousness 136, 139, 140, 144, 146
measurement of consciousness 61. See also c-report
measurement of physical world 69, 152
modification of consciousness 125, 129
natural experiment 76, 101, 131
natural language 62, 65, 71, 80, 151
nc-report 46
neural correlates of consciousness 72, 87. See also correlates of consciousness
neuron, definition of 71
offline bubble of experience 13, 20, 29, 35
online bubble of experience 12, 20, 29, 35
out-of-body experience 126
p-description 72, 115, 119, 129, 137, 139, 152
perception 11, 18, 87, 127, 165, 172, 192
phenomenal and access consciousness 48, 171
phenomenology 33, 64, 136, 155
philosophical problems with consciousness 3, 151
philosophy of science 181
physical c-theory 85, 98, 100, 113, 151
physicalism 31, 33, 59, 151, 154
platinum standard system 47, 53, 76, 77, 116, 117, 140, 141, 154, 173
qualia 9
reduction of consciousness to physical world. See physicalism
saccade. See eye movements
scientific experiments. See experiments on consciousness
secondary qualities 17, 20, 22
simulation of brain 83, 141, 153, 195
singularity 143
solipsism 47
special-purpose computer 103
specious present 176
structural connectivity 168
subjectivity of computation 108
subjectivity of information 95, 98
testable prediction. See prediction
theory of consciousness. See c-theory
Turing machine 104
unnatural experiment 76
uploading consciousness 141
virtual reality 114
wakefulness 167