Complete and consistent theories {consciousness, theory} {theory of consciousness} explain when, why, and how consciousness arose in the material world [Baars et al., 2003] [Baum, 2004] [Blakemore, 1997] [Block, 1985] [Calvin, 2004] [Davies and Humphreys, 1993] [Foster and Swanson, 1970] [Fuster, 2002] [Geary, 2004] [Greenfield, 2002] [Griffin, 2000] [Grimm and Merrill, 1988] [Josephson and Ramachandran, 1979] [Kim, 1993] [Kim, 2000] [Kosslyn and Koenig, 1995] [Lakoff and Johnson, 1999] [Libet, 2004] [Llinás and Churchland, 1996] [McDowell, 1994] [Oakley, 1985] [Porter and Schama, 2004] [Quartz and Sejnowski, 2002] [Rosen, 1991] [Rosenthal, 1991] [Scott, 1995] [Searle, 2004] [Stich and Warfield, 2003] [Striedter, 2004] [Swanson, 2002] [Torey, 1999] [van Frassen, 1980] [Villanueva, 1991] [Zimmer, 2004]. Good theories explain sense qualities, mental states, consciousness properties, consciousness purposes, consciousness prerequisites, brain structures, brain functions, biology, evolution, and development. Good theories describe how to build models to simulate consciousness processes and structures. Good theories use mathematical, computational, physical, and linguistic concepts [Blackmore, 2004] [Horgan, 1996] [Koch, 2004] [Kuhn, 1962] [Spencer-Brown, 1969].
questions
Questions about consciousness include nature, purpose, functions, structures, causes, states, prerequisites, properties, and relations. What are observers, and how do they evolve and develop? What is external three-dimensional space, and how does it evolve and develop? What are sensations, and how do they evolve and develop? What is knowing, and how does it evolve and develop?
process
Universe and life cannot come from nothing or non-material substance. Universe and life arose as natural matter and energy rearrangements, according to physical and mathematical laws. People have been able to locate universe and life beginnings in time and space and to imagine how they arose from previous substances and properties, according to universal laws. Perhaps, consciousness arose as natural matter and energy rearrangements, according to physical and mathematical laws. Perhaps, consciousness needs no new substance types and no events contradicting or supervening physical laws. Perhaps, consciousness did not come from nothing or non-material substance. Creating new substances from existing substances by means other than universal laws involves gods, mysteries, and/or miracles [Alexandrov et al., 1984].
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