Theories of consciousness: Second half of the 20th century
List of theories whose epoch is Second half of the 20th century. They are part of the wider catalogue of 222 theories of consciousness. You can also see the interactive graph or switch facet:
82 theories classified under “Second half of the 20th century”.
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- 40 Hz gamma oscillations
- Absent / inverted qualia
- Access vs phenomenal consciousness
- ACT-R architecture
- Actor-network theory
- Altered states of consciousness
- Attachment theory and intersubjective consciousness
- Autobiographical memory and self
- Autopoiesis
- Bicameral mind hypothesis
- Binding by synchrony
- Biological naturalism
- Biosemiotics
- Bohmian mechanics
- Centre of narrative gravity
- Chinese room
- Collective intelligence and social consciousness
- Complex systems and emergence
- Computational cognitivism
- Computational theory of the self (computational Dennett)
- Consciousness in non-human animals
- Content externalism
- Cultural studies and mediatized consciousness
- Dramaturgical model of the self
- Dynamic core theory
- Ecological extended mind
- Eliminativism
- Embodied AI and cognitive robotics
- Embodied cognition
- Enactivism
- Ethnomethodology and everyday practices
- Evolutionary theory of consciousness
- Foucault and consciousness as effect of power
- Functionalism
- Gaia hypothesis
- Gibson's ecological psychology
- Global workspace theory
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Higher-order theory (HOT)
- Holographic theory of the universe
- Holonomic brain theory
- Humanistic psychology
- Hypnosis and consciousness
- Implicate order
- Information cosmology (it from bit)
- Knowledge argument (Mary's Room)
- Lacanian structural unconscious
- Many-worlds interpretation
- Massive modularity of mind
- Mind-brain identity theory
- Morphogenetic fields / morphic resonance
- Multiple drafts theory
- Narrative identity (Ricoeur)
- Near-death experiences and non-local consciousness
- Neural correlates of consciousness
- Neural Darwinism
- Neurophenomenology
- New Age and holistic consciousness
- Orch-OR (orchestrated objective reduction)
- Participatory universe
- Philosophical hermeneutics
- Philosophical zombie argument
- Quantum theory of consciousness (Stapp)
- Ritual trance and possession
- Situated cognition
- SOAR architecture
- Social brain hypothesis
- Social constructivism of the self
- Social mind and theory of mind
- Society of mind
- Society of the spectacle
- Somatic marker hypothesis
- Split-brain
- Strange loop / strange I
- Symbol grounding problem
- Thalamocortical loop theory
- The Tao of Physics
- Transpersonal psychology
- Triune brain theory
- Turing-machine functionalism
- Unified field theory of consciousness
- Virtual mind hypothesis (Sloman)