Richard Brown on higher order thought theories of consciousness | Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan

Richard Brown is a philosopher at the City University of New York. His work is focused on the philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, and the foundations of cognitive science and he has done significant work on higher order thought theories of consciousness. 0:00 intro 4:14 studying consciousness 12:11 higher order thought theories 15:37 variants of HOT theories (relational and representational) 25:30 where do higher order mental states come from? 32:33 HOROR theory (higher order representation of a representation) 36:40 mismatch cases and empirical support 53:45 exploring vs identifying 56:00 panpsychism 1:09:59 global workspace theory and IIT 1:21:48 the consciousness studies field 1:28:15 animal consciousness 1:43:30 infant consciousness 1:46:56 emotions 1:59:20 well being 2:08:39 phenomenal consciousness 2:10:57 being interdisciplinary Personal Website: https://www.asharkhan.ca/ Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dUBLTl... Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Amazon: https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/9c6c...