Electromagnetic-Field Theories of Mind

Abstract

Abstract: Neuroscience investigates how neuronal processing circuits work, but it has problems explaining experiences this way. For exam-ple, it hasn’t explained how colour and shape circuits bind together in visual processing, nor why colours and other qualia are experienced so differently yet processed by circuits so similarly, nor how to get from processing circuits to pictorial images spread across inner space. Some theorists turn from these circuits to their electromagnetic fields to deal with such difficulties concerning the mind’s qualia, unity, privacy, and causality. They include Kohler, Libet, Popper,