Reading Notes Being No One {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Tools used in the formalization

See BeingNoOne for the others notes.

Chapter 3 - Tools I

• Mental Representation: Rep_M(S, X, Y)
• Introspection₁ "external attention", with attention penetrability
• Introspection₂ "consciously experienced cognitive reference", with cognitive penetrability
• Introspection₃ "inward attention" and "inner perception", with attention penetrability
• Introspection₄ "consciously experienced cognitive self-reference", with cognitive penetrability
• Phenomenal Representation: Rep_P (S, X, Y)
• Mental Simulation: Sim_M (S, X, Y)
• Mental Representation: Rep_M <-> Sim`<sub>M</sub> (W<sub>0</sub>, S, X, Y) ( Mental Simulation: Sim`_M (W, S, X, Y) )
• Phenomenal Simulation: Sim_P (S, X, Y)
• Mental Presentation: Pre_M (S, X, Y)
• Phenomenal Presentation: Pre_P (S, X, Y)

Chapter 5 - Tools II (focusing on self-representation)

• Mental Representation: Rep_M(S, X, Y) mentioned again
  • Box 5.1, p266 but mentioned earlier in Chapter 3 - Tools I
• Mental Self-Representation: S-Rep_M(S_T, X, _R)
• Phenomenal Self-Representation: S-Rep_P(S_T, X, _R)
• Mental Self-Simulation: S-Sim_M(S_T, X, _R)
• Phenomenal Self-Simulation: S-Sim_P(S_T, X, _R)
• Mental Self-Presentation: S-Pre_M (S, X, Y)
• Phenomenal Self-Presentation: S-Pre_P (S, X, Y)

Chapter 6 - The Representational Deep Structure of the Phenomenal First-Person Perspective

Syntactic definitions (p398 to 402)

• I* content of the conscious, current transparent model of the self
• [I am certain that I* exist] active phenomenal content
• <I> current conscious thought is a component of the speaker's self-model
• <I*> transparent partition of the self-model
• [I*] content of the transparent self-model
• [I* exist] decisive property of the transparent self-model

Additional key concepts

• State-space semantics (SSS) introduced by Churchland (1986) p112
• active externalism (AE) introduced by Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) p112
• global workspace theory (GWT) introduced by Bernard Baars (1988) p120
• highest-order binding (HOB) introduced by Meztinger (1995) p137
• functional cluster index (CI) introcued by Edelman and Tononi (1996) p141
  • "To have an integrated, globally coherent model of the world means to create a global functional cluster, that is, an island of maximal causal density within one's own representational system." p141
    • see also Philosophical Darwinism