title: On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
creator: Chalmers, David
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: This is a constructive analysis of the search for the "neural correlate of consciousness" (or the NCC, as it's sometimes called). I argue that because we don't have any way of detecting consciousness directly (i.e., we have no "consciousness meter"), the search is driven by pre-empirical bridging principles instead. I discuss some of these principles and draw some conclusions about the shape of the search. This paper is largely a transcript of my talk at the 1996 Tucson conference on consciousness, although some fun and games have been omitted.
date: 1996
type: Preprint
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/227/1/199711001.html
identifier:   Chalmers, David  (1996) On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/227/