Harry Haroutioun Haladjian Ph.D.

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Harry Haroutioun Haladjian, Ph.D., is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception at the Université Paris Descartes / CNRS.

Books by Harry Haroutioun Haladjian Ph.D.

Recent Posts

Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

AI has advanced by including several human-like processes in its programming. While such processes are core for human consciousness, they will not lead to artificial consciousness.

Finding Perspective on the First-Person Perspective

While phenomenal consciousness is characterized by subjective experiences from a first-person perspective, current scientific theories of consciousness fail to address this topic.

What Is Phenomenal Consciousness?

Sometimes the most obvious things are difficult to explain. In this post, we’ll try to clarify what cognitive scientists mean when they talk about “phenomenal consciousness.”

Commodifying Your Attention: The Informavore Perspective

Competition for attention in the natural world shaped how attentional mechanisms evolved. What’s the fate of our attention now that there are more competitors?

Informavores: Beings that Produce and Consume Information

What is the purpose of attention other than for consuming information? Is the increasing complexity of information consumption a primary evolutionary development in all organisms?

What is the purpose of attention other than for consuming information? Is the increasing complexity of information consumption a primary evolutionary development in all organisms?

The Role of Information in Consciousness

Humans are informavores — constantly seeking and consuming information. But just how much does information influence our conscious experience?

Humans are informavores — constantly seeking and consuming information. But just how much does information influence our conscious experience?

Joint Attention and Conversational Cooperation

In "The Lord of the Flies", Golding weaves together themes of chaos, order, and human nature in an insightful and haunting story that illustrates the importance of cooperation.

In "The Lord of the Flies", Golding weaves together themes of chaos, order, and human nature in an insightful and haunting story that illustrates the importance of cooperation.

Consciousness and Information

Our conscious experience contains and depends upon many different kinds of information. What is the relationship between how information is processed and conscious awareness?

Our conscious experience contains and depends upon many different kinds of information. What is the relationship between how information is processed and conscious awareness?

Consciousness in Other Animals

This post discusses the challenge of determining whether or not the experiences of other organisms have the same phenomenal quality of our typical conscious experiences.

This post discusses the challenge of determining whether or not the experiences of other organisms have the same phenomenal quality of our typical conscious experiences.

Consciousness and Empathy

While much of human intelligence does not require one to be consciously aware of it, empathy may be something that necessitates phenomenal consciousness.

While much of human intelligence does not require one to be consciously aware of it, empathy may be something that necessitates phenomenal consciousness.