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Statement of Main Concerns Jack Petranker<\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
The approach I take to studying consciousness from a first-person perspective can be summed up in this way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The way to understand more about consciousness is to be conscious differently.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
For me this is a vitally important methodological point. But it has implications that others I am sure not everyone will agree with. For one, it means that what we learn about consciousness from first-person inquiry may not be expressible in propositions. It may not be valid from one person to the next; may not be verifiable in any of the ways that we look for verification in third-person approaches. For another, second-person inquiry becomes indeed secondary, even though it plays an important role (perhaps especially, from my perspective, for the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsecond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 person. <\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/font>There is another way to put this. Interesting though it may be, I do not think we will make much progress in the field of first-person inquiry by focusing on the content of consciousness. No matter how well we do in developing a methodology, there will be room for skepticism (the forthcoming book by Russ and Eric Schwitzgebel, available at Russ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website, is very good on clarifying this point.) So the kind of inquiry I find most fruitful does not focus that much on content. Yet another formulation: The real learning comes in the act of inquiry, not in what is learned.<\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span>All this is vitally important for me on a personal level; it describes the kind of inquiry I have been exploring for some 30 years or more. I also think it has importance for our culture, because (speaking roughly), once we get past issues of content, of the way things are, we may be able to find grounds for commonality that will not be available at the level of content. Hence my interest in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153communities of inquiry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I may be overstating here; I sometimes suspect that in the name of total openness and fluidity I am being too rigid. The conference will be a way for me to get more clear on this possibility. And of course, it will be a place to see if the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153community of inquiry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be given operational significance. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Statement of Main Concerns Jack Petranker The approach I take to studying consciousness from a first-person perspective can be summed up in this way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The way to understand more about consciousness is to be conscious differently.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For me this is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ratna-ling-consciousness-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}