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Going GreyhoundsGoing Greyhounds with Simon Orchard 19.06.25Simon catches up with the Grafton Greyhounds CEO, John Corrigan, about the massive meeting this Saturday before chatting to trainer John Barnden.2025-06-1920 min
Models of ConsciousnessJohn Barnden - Consciousness, metacausation and metadynamismOne in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. John Barnden
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
I assume that [phenomenal] consciousness is a property physical processes can have, and that it involves pre-reflective auto-sensitivity (PRAS), which is related to the much-discussed pre-reflective self-consciousness [3,4]. I then argue that PRAS requires conscious processes to be directly and causally sensitive to their own inner causation as such, and not merely to their own trajectories of physical states as ordinarily understood. That causal sensitivity is therefore metacausation. Metacausation here is where instances of causation are themselves, directly and...2019-10-1321 min