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      Emergence of qualia from brain activity or from an interaction of proto-consciousness with the brain: which one is the weirder? Available evidence and a research agenda

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          This contribution to the science of consciousness aims at comparing how two different theories can explain the emergence of different qualia experiences: meta-awareness, meta-cognition, the placebo effect, out-of-body experiences, cognitive therapy, meditation-induced brain changes, etc. The first theory postulates that qualia experiences derive from specific neural patterns, and the second one that qualia experiences derive from the interaction of a proto-consciousness with the brain’s neural activity. From this comparison, it will be possible to judge which one seems to better explain the different qualia experiences and to offer a more promising research agenda.

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                Patrizio Tressoldi: (View ORCID Profile)
                Enrico Facco: (View ORCID Profile)
                Daniela Lucangeli: (View ORCID Profile)
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                Journal ID (publisher-id): SOR-SOCSCI
                Title: ScienceOpen Research
                Publisher: ScienceOpen
                ISSN (Electronic): 2199-1006
                Publication date: 16 August 2016
                Volume: 0 (ID: 6c9b13db-64f3-451b-ab3f-038f2779509b )
                Issue: 0
                Pages: 1-7
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
                [2 ]Department of Neurosciences, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
                [3 ]DPSS, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
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                [* ]Corresponding author’s e-mail address: patrizio.tressoldi@ 123456unipd.it
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                Publisher ID: 3752:XE
                DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-SOCSCI.AY054B.v1
                Copyright statement: © 2016 Tressoldi et al.

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                This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Medicine, Psychology, Theoretical physics, Social & Behavioral Sciences

                Keywords: quantum physics, qualia, consciousness, brain, mind

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