In:Consciousness: New perspectives, artificial consciousness, and the scientific progress of psychology
Sam S. Rakover
[Advances in Consciousness Research 96] 2026
► pp. 36–56
Chapter 3Why have explanations of consciousness failed?
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Article outline
- 3.1Part I: A brief review of explanations for the unsolved CΨ-problem
- 3.1.1Limitations of scientific methodology
- 3.1.2Hidden energy
- 3.1.3Consciousness as an emergent phenomenon
- 3.1.4What would happen if a successful TC were Discovered?
- 3.2Part II: Measurement and the unsolved problem of CΨ
- 3.2.1Empirical test
- 3.2.2Illusions and man as a measurement device
- 3.2.3Intelligence quotient
- 3.2.4Transitivity
- 3.2.5Is it possible to learn something from attempts to apply methods of physical measurement to the measurement of CΨ?
