Debate: Can We Understand Consciousness by Category Theoretic Approach?
What Is It to Define Consciousness?
2019 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 487-491
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2019 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 487-491
In their paper of this issue, N. Tsuchiya and H. Saigo attempt to define consciousness on the basis of category theoretic notions. This commentary has three aims. The first is to clarify what exactly they mean by “the definition of consciousness”. The second is to examine to what extent their attempt is successful. The third is to suggest why category theory is considered to be useful to describe/define conscious phenomena.
