Cognitive Science needs an interdisciplinary approach – it needs to derive insights from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, computer science, linguistics, etc.
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To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does... See more