Title: \;Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Structuralism and the How Test
\n\nAbstract: \;How can we test NCC-hypotheses? In recent years\, a kind of test has become prominent\, where researchers predict interindividual \;differences in experience from interindividual differences in neural structures. This test (the How-Test) only makes sense if we accept the assumption that certain neural structures and phenomenal structures are systematically linked. Based on this\, I sketch a form of structural realism for this field of study. I distinguish different forms in which we can be structuralists\, argue for a specific kind of neurophenomenal structuralism and defend it against the classical qualia view.
\nBio: Sascha Benjamin Fink is currently Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy at the Programme for Philosophy&ndash\;Neurosciences&ndash\;Cognition at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universitä\;t Magdeburg\, a member of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Magdeburg and co-editor-in-chief of the journal \;Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. He studied philosophy\, history of art\, biology and Japanese studies in Mainz\, Florence and Tokyo and handed in his PhD on foundational issues in a neuroscience of consciousness at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrü\;ck. His research focus is on the neuroscience of consciousness.
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