5 research outputs found
Do preferences and beliefs in dilemma games exhibit complementarity?
Blanco et. al. (2014) show in a novel experiment the presence of intrinsic interactions between the preferences and the beliefs of participants in social dilemma games. They discuss the identification of three effects, and we claim that two of them are inherently of non-classical nature. Here, we discuss qualitatively how a model based on complementarity between preferences and beliefs in a Hilbert space can give an structural explanation to two of the three effects the authors observe, and the third one can be incorporated into the model as a classical correlation between the observations in two subspaces. Quantitative formalization of the model and proper fit to the experimental observation will be done in the near future, as we have been given recent access to the original dataset
Emergence of qualia from brain activity or from an interaction of proto-consciousness with the brain: which one is the weirder? Available evidence and a research agenda
This contribution to the science of consciousness aims at comparing how two different theories can
explain the emergence of different qualia experiences, meta-awareness, meta-cognition, the placebo
effect, out-of-body experiences, cognitive therapy and meditation-induced brain changes, etc.
The first theory postulates that qualia experiences derive from specific neural patterns, the second
one, that qualia experiences derive from the interaction of a proto-consciousness with the brain\u2019s
neural activity. From this comparison it will be possible to judge which one seems to better explain
the different qualia experiences and to offer a more promising research agenda