Theories of Consciousness 5/6: Theories of Consciousness in a Structural Turn (with Johannes Kleiner)

February 24, 2024. 2 hours. Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalizations of conscious experiences are replaced by structural tools, most notably mathematical spaces and mathematical structures. This might, in Kleiner’s view, lead to a novel phase in consciousness science that fundamentally changes how we engage in, theorize about, and empirically investigate conscious experiences. He introduces the audience to these developments and paints a picture of how we might expect consciousness science to change if the turn indeed happens, both in terms of scientific…