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What a massive and impressive coverage. The author, Robert Kuhn of Closer to Truth (https://closertotruth.com https://closertotruth.com), ends this beast with a
by robwwilliams 2y ago
What a massive and impressive coverage. The author, Robert Kuhn of Closer to Truth (https://closertotruth.com https://closertotruth.com), ends this beast with a request to readers:
> Feedback is appreciated, critique too—especially explanations or theories of consciousness not included, or not described accurately, or not classified properly; also, improvements of the classification typology.
I think RK would enjoy Humberto Maturana’s take on cognition and self-cognition. Maturana usually does not use the word “consciousness”.
Start with Maturana’s book with Francisco Valera:
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (1970)
The appendix of this book is important (“The Nervous System”). Last few pages blew my brain or mind ;-)
Thinking about consciousness without thinking more deeply about temporality is one problem most (or perhaps even all) models of consciousness still have.
Since Robert Kuhn works in thalamocortical activity the theme of timing should resonant.