One thing I found extremely nice about your report is that it could serve EAs (and people in general) as a basis for shared terminology in discussions! If two people from different backgrounds wanted to have a discussion about philosophy of mind or animal consciousness, which texts would you recommend they both read in order to prepare themselves? (Not so much in terms of familiarity with popular terminology, but rather useful terminology.) Can you think of anything really good that is shorter than this report?
Unfortunately, the literature on consciousness is in even greater terminological disarray than many other fields, for understandable reasons: (1) to an unusual degree, we still don’t know what we’re talking about w.r.t. consciousness, and as a result, (2) consciousness studies is an extremely interdisciplinary “field,” with contributions from scholars of nearly non-overlapping professional backgrounds. So, I’m not sure what a useful source on “useful terminology” would look like. Possibly a broad and shallow survey like my report or Weisberg (2014) is the best we can do at this stage.
One thing I found extremely nice about your report is that it could serve EAs (and people in general) as a basis for shared terminology in discussions! If two people from different backgrounds wanted to have a discussion about philosophy of mind or animal consciousness, which texts would you recommend they both read in order to prepare themselves? (Not so much in terms of familiarity with popular terminology, but rather useful terminology.) Can you think of anything really good that is shorter than this report?
Unfortunately, the literature on consciousness is in even greater terminological disarray than many other fields, for understandable reasons: (1) to an unusual degree, we still don’t know what we’re talking about w.r.t. consciousness, and as a result, (2) consciousness studies is an extremely interdisciplinary “field,” with contributions from scholars of nearly non-overlapping professional backgrounds. So, I’m not sure what a useful source on “useful terminology” would look like. Possibly a broad and shallow survey like my report or Weisberg (2014) is the best we can do at this stage.