Neurophenomenology & the Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Orateur : Kenneth WILLIFORD (University of Texas, Arlington)

The neurophenomenological program, if successful, would provide us with a conceptually clear bridge from first-person conscious experience to a neuroscientific theory of consciousness. A crucial assumption of the program is that such experience can provide us with genuine knowledge of the explanatorily relevant properties of consciousness. In this talk, I consider arguments for and against that assumption and consider possible criteria of explanatory relevance as well. I end by briefly discussing four examples from the neurophenomenological point of view : Damasio’s theory of consciousness, Tononi’s theory of consciousness, Friston’s “Bayesian Brain” paradigm, and Rudrauf’s projective geometrical model of first-person conscious experience.

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