Dubrovskiy D. I. The Mind-Brain Problem: The Informational Approach

(Moscow University for the Humanities)

Abstract ◊ This is a paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (FIS-2013) that took place at Moscow University for the Humanities on May 21–23, 2013. The author proposes a theoretical solution to the mind-brain problem following the informational approach. It includes an explanation of the connection of the phenomena of consciousness with brain processes and a clarification of their causative function.

Keywords: consciousness, brain, information, subjective reality, code dependency, neurodynamic system, information causality, free will, self-organization.

Dubrovskiy David Izrailevich, Doctor of Science (philosophy), professor, chief researcher of the Department of the Theory of Knowledge at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Tel.: +7 (495) 697-93-93. E-mail: ddi29@mail.ru

Citation: Dubrovskiy D. I. Soznanie i mozg: informatsionnyi podkhod k probleme [The Mind-Brain Problem: The Informational Approach]. Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie. 2013. No. 4. S. 92–98.

Submission date: 15.08.2013.

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