The correlation noesis-noema, the intentionality of consciousness, cannot be reduced to an act of cognitive information processing, since that reduction would only become the new noema in a new act of consciousness.
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@bluebirch
On a related note, I do often wonder about those scientists who claim that they've "proven" that the neurons in our brain show signs of activities earlier than we ourselves become aware of them, thereby claiming that our consciousness is somehow superfluous. In that case, isn't this alledged "proof" also just a mere random, insignificant event in the universe...? (reductio ad absurdum)
Perhaps scientists should reflect on the implications of their own "findings" once in a while.
@areteichi Unfortunately, philosophical reflexion and knowledge of philosophy of mind is scarce within academic psychology, so that is the kind of "proofs" you find. It is slightly better within the cognitive sciences.
My dream is to work at the Center of Subjectivitiy Research at Copenhagen University. That's something completely different…
@drbjork
Yeah, I've met a few scholors from the Center for Subjectivity Research before including Dan Zahavi, when I attended a couple of conferences from the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (since I did phenomenology).
It might be of your interest if you don't know it already (the website seems to be down atm however):
https://nordicsocietyforphenomenology.wordpress.com
I agree, the CFS is certainly doing some interesting things that are also interdisciplinary in character.
@areteichi I know the Nordic society, I subscribe to their newsletter. I attended the summer school of CFS in 2014, but since I earned my PhD I have more or less lost contact with the academic world. Would love to do a comeback some day though…
@areteichi They do, as if a "view from nowhere" where possible and "information" had meaning in itself, not *for* someone, thereby collapsing the knower into the known, the subject into the object.
@bluebirch
While I agree with your assessment above, I think what many positivists (materialists) and techno-utopians are contending is that information processing is not an "act" at all. Our cognitive activities are a mere instance in a series of random events that has no conscious content (the supposed "act") whatsoever.