Understanding the qualitative nature of human consciousness

Published on November 14, 2024

Understanding what conscious experiences feel like from a first-person perspective, known as the hard problem of consciousness, remains one of the most intriguing yet elusive topics in science and philosophy [1,2]. In their timely article in TiCS, Fleming and Shea propose the quality space approach as a promising path forward [3]. They suggest that the qualitative nature of consciousness can be studied by correlating the subjective similarity between stimulus-evoked conscious experiences with the similarity in neural activity patterns.

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