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Mens Sana Monographs 

A Monongraph Series Devoted To The Understanding of Medicine, Mental Health, Mind , Man And Their Maxtrix 

Donelson E. Dulany

What Explains Consciousness? Or…What Consciousness Explains?

Abstract In this invited commentary I focus on the topic addressed in three papers: De Sousa’s (2013[16,17]) Toward an Integrative Theory of Consciousness, a monograph with Parts 1 & 2, as well as commentaries by Pereira (2013a[59]) and Hirstein (2013[42]). All three are impressively scholarly and can stand—and shout—on their own. But theory of consciousness? […]

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What Should Be the Roles of Conscious States and Brain States in Theories of Mental Activity?

Abstract Answers to the title’s question have been influenced by a history in which an early science of consciousness was rejected by behaviourists on the argument that this entails commitment to ontological dualism and “free will” in the sense of indeterminism. This is, however, a confusion of theoretical assertions with metaphysical assertions. Nevertheless, a legacy

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