Grades of Multisensory Awareness

O’Callaghan, Casey

doi:10.1111/mila.12137

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“…It is also important before proceeding to distinguish the claim that G-integration can support the representation of weakly novel types of features from the claim that certain relational features have instances that are only perceptible multisensorily. O'Callaghan (2014O'Callaghan ( , 2015O'Callaghan ( , 2017 discusses cases involving intermodal feature binding, causation, timing, and meter perception. Importantly, in each of these cases, the relevant relational feature is independently perceptible by each of the contributing modalities.…”

Section: Generative Multisensory Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Casey O'Callaghan (2014O'Callaghan ( , 2015O'Callaghan ( , 2017) makes a persuasive case for the first possibility: flavor perception, he argues, involves multisensory awareness of a strongly novel type of feature, one whose instances are only perceptible through the coordinated operation of distinct senses. "Flavor experiences", he suggests, "may have entirely novel phenomenal features of a type-even a qualitative type-that no unimodal experience could instantiate and that do not accrue thanks to simple coconsciousness" (2015, pp.…”

Section: Flavor Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bodily awareness and novel multisensory features

Briscoe

2019

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According to the decomposition thesis, perceptual experiences resolve without remainder into their different modality-specific components. Contrary to this view, I argue that certain cases of multisensory integration give rise to experiences representing features of a novel type. Through the coordinated use of bodily awareness-understood here as encompassing both proprioception and kinaesthesis-and the exteroceptive sensory modalities, one becomes perceptually responsive to spatial features whose instances couldn't be represented by any of the contributing modalities functioning in isolation. I develop an argument for this conclusion focusing on two cases: 3D shape perception in haptic touch and experiencing an object's egocentric location in crossmodally accessible, environmental space.

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Section: Generative Multisensory Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Flavor Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bodily awareness and novel multisensory features

Briscoe

2019

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“…This means that they together could produce a number of collective (global) signals, for example, a variety if EEG patterns, including neural correlates for perceptual and attentional states . It also means that perception and awareness may critically depend on the sensor environment—multisensory perception …”

Section: Consciousness and Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[155] It also means that perception and awareness may critically depend on the sensor environment-multisensory perception. [156][157][158][159]…”

Section: From Coma To Completely-locked-in Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

Can Biological Quantum Networks Solve NP‐Hard Problems?

Wendin

2019

Adv Quantum Tech

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There is a widespread view that the human brain is so complex that it cannot be efficiently simulated by universal Turing machines, let alone ordinary classical computers. During the last decades the question has therefore been raised whether it is needed to consider quantum effects to explain the imagined cognitive power of a conscious mind. Not surprisingly, the conclusion is that quantum‐enhanced cognition and intelligence are very unlikely to be found in biological brains. Quantum effects may certainly influence signaling pathways at the molecular level in the brain network, like ion ports, synapses, sensors, and enzymes. This might evidently influence the functionality of some nodes and perhaps even the overall intelligence of the brain network, but hardly give it any dramatically enhanced functionality. The conclusion is that biological quantum networks can only approximately solve small instances of nonpolynomial (NP)‐hard problems. On the other hand, artificial intelligence and machine learning implemented in complex dynamical systems based on genuine quantum networks can certainly be expected to show enhanced performance and quantum advantage compared with classical networks. Nevertheless, even quantum networks can only be expected to solve NP‐hard problems approximately. In the end it is a question of precision—Nature is approximate.

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“…The second type of phenomena whose occurrence is incompatible with the thesis that all multimodal experiences are conjunctively multimodal is intermodal, or cross-modal, binding (Briscoe 2017;Clark 2001;Kubovy and Schutz 2010;Kubovy and Yu 2012;Macpherson 2011;O'Callaghan 2006O'Callaghan , 2008O'Callaghan , 2011O'Callaghan , 2012O'Callaghan , 2014aO'Callaghan , 2015aO'Callaghan , b, 2016O'Callaghan , 2017. Multimodal experiences involving intermodal binding are those that present a single entity, usually an object or an event, as combined with elements associated with different modalities.…”

Section: Conjunctive Multimodality and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

The structure of audio–visual consciousness

Skrzypulec

2019

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It is commonly believed that human perceptual experiences can be, and usually are, multimodal. What is more, a stronger thesis is often proposed that some perceptual multimodal characters cannot be described simply as a conjunction of unimodal phenomenal elements. If it is the case, then a question arises: what is the additional mode of combination that is required to adequately describe the phenomenal structure of multimodal experiences? The paper investigates what types of audio-visual experiences have phenomenal character that cannot be analysed as a mere conjunction of visual and auditory elements; and how can we properly characterise the required, additional mode of perceptual combination. Three main modes of combination are considered: (a) instantiation, (b) parthood, and (c) grouping. It is argued that some phenomena involving intermodal relations, like spatial and temporal ventriloquism, can be analysed in terms of audio-visual, perceptual grouping. On the other hand, cases of intermodal binding need a different treatment. Experiences involving audio-visual binding should be analysed as experiences presenting objects or events which instantiate, or which have a proper part instantiating, both visually and auditorily determined properties.In contemporary philosophy of perception, it is commonly believed that human perceptual experiences can be, and usually are, multimodal (see Briscoe 2016;

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Grades of Multisensory Awareness

Cited by 18 publications

References 68 publications

Bodily awareness and novel multisensory features

Bodily awareness and novel multisensory features

Can Biological Quantum Networks Solve NP‐Hard Problems?

The structure of audio–visual consciousness

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