ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2022
Neurophenomenal structuralism. A philosophical agenda for a structuralist neuroscience of consciousness.
Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Principal bundle geometry of qualia: Understanding the quality of consciousness from symmetry.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Towards a Mathematical Structure of Global Phenomenal Consciousness.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Is my "red" your "red"?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment.iScience · 2025Article
- Qualia structures collapse for geometric shapes, but not faces, when spatial attention is withdrawn.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Quantum-like Qualia hypothesis: from quantum cognition to quantum perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Exploring the role of structuralist methodology in the neuroscience of consciousness: a defense and analysis.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023Article
- Neurocentrist identity theory and neuro-phenomenal typing: A commentary on Manzotti's, "The boundaries and location of consciousness as identity theories deem fit".Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The program of "neurophenomenal structuralism" is presented as an agenda for a genuine structuralist neuroscience of consciousness that seeks to understand specific phenomenal experiences as strictly relational affairs. The paper covers a broad range of topics. It starts from considerations about neural change detection and relational coding that motivate a solution of the Newman problem of the brain in terms of spatiotemporal relations. Next, phenomenal quality spaces and their Q-structures are discussed. Neurophenomenal structuralism proclaims a homomorphic mapping of the structures of self-organized neural maps in the brain onto Q-structures, and it will be demonstrated how this leads to a new and special version of structural representationalism about phenomenal content. A methodological implication of neurophenomenal structuralism is that it proposes measurement procedures that focus on the relationships between different stimuli (as, for instance, similarity ratings or representational geometry methods). Finally, it will be shown that neurophenomenal structuralism also has strong philosophical implications, as it leads to holism about phenomenal experiences and serves to reject inverted qualia scenarios.
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