When1: 1979
When2: 1995
Who: Paul M. Churchland [Churchland, Paul M.]
What: philosopher
Where: USA
works\ Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind [1979]; Matter and Consciousness [1984]; Neurocomputational Perspective [1989]; Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul [1995: Fusion Net]
Detail: He lived 1942 to ?.
Epistemology
People use terms such as desires, intentions, and reasons {folk psychology}, but scientific terms must replace these terms {eliminativism}.
Mind
Consciousness uses short-term memory, does not need sensory input, changes attention, interprets input, disappears in deep sleep, reappears in dreaming, and unifies senses. Conscious states involve changing attention, representing inputs, using concepts, combining attention and perception in short-term memory, and processing over time {dynamical profile approach}. Consciousness can be conscious of all representations, not just self-representations or high-level representations. Brain uses recurrent neural networks for attention and memory.
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