creators_name: Chalmers, David
type: preprint
datestamp: 1997-11-13
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:45
metadata_visibility: show
title: On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
abstract: This is a constructive analysis of the search for the "neural correlate of consciousness" (or the NCC, as it's sometimes called). I argue that because we don't have any way of detecting consciousness directly (i.e., we have no "consciousness meter"), the search is driven by pre-empirical bridging principles instead. I discuss some of these principles and draw some conclusions about the shape of the search. This paper is largely a transcript of my talk at the 1996 Tucson conference on consciousness, although some fun and games have been omitted.
date: 1996
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Chalmers, David  (1996) On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/227/1/199711001.html