caa a22 4500 445838051 CHVBK 20180317145335.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-010-9214-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-010-9214-y Swiatczak Bartlomiej European School of Molecular Medicine, SEMM, Campus IFOM-IEO, Via Adamello, 16, 20139, Milan, Italy aut Conscious Representations: An Intractable Problem for the Computational Theory of Mind [Elektronische Daten] [Bartlomiej Swiatczak] Advocates of the computational theory of mind claim that the mind is a computer whose operations can be implemented by various computational systems. According to these philosophers, the mind is multiply realisable because—as they claim—thinking involves the manipulation of syntactically structured mental representations. Since syntactically structured representations can be made of different kinds of material while performing the same calculation, mental processes can also be implemented by different kinds of material. From this perspective, consciousness plays a minor role in mental activity. However, contemporary neuroscience provides experimental evidence suggesting that mental representations necessarily involve consciousness. Consciousness does not only enable individuals to become aware of their own thoughts, it also constantly changes the causal properties of these thoughts. In light of these empirical studies, mental representations appear to be intrinsically dependent on consciousness. This discovery represents an obstacle to any attempt to construct an artificial mind. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Consciousness nationallicence Mental representation nationallicence Mental causation nationallicence Computational theory of mind nationallicence Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 19-32 0924-6495 21:1<19 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9214-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9214-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Swiatczak Bartlomiej European School of Molecular Medicine, SEMM, Campus IFOM-IEO, Via Adamello, 16, 20139, Milan, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 19-32 0924-6495 21:1<19 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer