
## Notes on Character of Consciousness (Chalmers 2016)

### Typology of the mind-body problem
Here are sketches of the Chalmers mind-body problem typology found in chapter 5. Note that this chapter also starts with arguments against materialism.

Type A Materialism ("denial"): There is no phenomenal experience to explain, rather there is only the structure and functions of cognition.

Type B Materialism ("epistemically primitive gap"): There is an epistemic gap between the physical and phenomenal domains, but there is no ontological gap. The identification between consciousness and physical or functional states is epistemically primitive: the identity is not deducible from the complete physical truth. 

Type C Materialism ("closable gap"): There is a deep epistemic gap between the physical and phenomenal domains, but it is closable in principle. Chalmers argues the view is unstable and collapses into other types.

Type D Dualism (Interactionism): Physical states cause phenomenal states, and phenomenal states cause physical states. The corresponding psychophysical laws run in both directions. 

Type E Dualism (Epiphenomenalism): Phenomenal properties are ontologically distinct from physical properties and that the phenomenal has no effect on the physical.

Type F Dualism (Russell monism or Panprotopsychism): Phenomenal or protophenomenal properties are located at the fundamental level of physical reality and in a certain sense underlie physical reality itself.

Some other views such as denying the physical are also discussed.

On philosophy of consciousness



## Moon shine shadow
Eyes to vision<br/>
Sol realizes<br/>
Dreams of fusion

Photonic confusion<br/>
Hydrogen stories<br/>
Aeons of refraction


## Frutas insectoïdes
Corps d'insectes<br/>
Vendeurs de rues<br/>
Organes cavités sonores<br/>
Chariots haut-parleurs<br/>
Vibrants de leurs gènes<br/>
Distribution des fruits

Poems


Quick experiments in "neural style transfer", based on [arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576](https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576) and [this tutorial](https://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/neural_style_tutorial.html). [Code](https://gitlab.com/orpheuslummis/neuralstyletransfer).

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## galactic dicotyledon
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## rusty galaxy
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## galactic dance
![](/media/20190209_030434Z_dance_galaxy.jpg)

## galactic fungi
![](/media/20190209_021931Z_fungi_a_galaxy.jpg)

## sunset sunset
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## sunset fungi
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