What is consciousness? - Multiplicity and meaning - (consciousness as a framework)

Summary of a lecture at the symposium "Applied Consciousness Science - A new discipline is emerging" on November 2, 2011 in Regensburg

  • Hinderk M. Emrich
Keywords: Consciousness, Intentionality, Awakening, Multiplicity of meaning, Framing

Abstract

Consciousness obviously represents one of the greatest challenging topics within the field of cognitive sciences, since – in the specific type of understanding – it is nearly exclusively represented in human beings. Within the philosophical and psychiatric-anthropological types of reflection consciousness is investigated under the perspective of “framing” and – phenomenologically – regarding the quality of intentionality, the phenomenon of “awakening” and the crucial problem as to parallel streams of conscious experiences

Author Biography

Hinderk M. Emrich

Prof. Dr. Dr., is a German psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. As a scientist and clinician, Emrich strives to integrate the humanistic and neurobiological foundations of his discipline and to draw conclusions for individual therapies and social designs. In addition to his work as full professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Medical University of Hannover from 1992-2008, he has held teaching positions at various humanities faculties. (Wikipedia)

Published
2013-07-18
Issue
Vol. 19 No. 1 (2013): Issue 1/2013 The spectrum of consciousness sciences
Section
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