@article {1066,
	title = {Sentience, Awareness, Consciousness},
	journal = {Organon F},
	volume = {19},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {51-63},
	type = {State},
	abstract = {The paper starts from a Searlean dilemma {\textendash} we are bound to view consciousness as ultimately explicable by scientific means, yet science appears to give us no means for explaining the specificity of consciousness {\textendash} and presents what I see as a plausible though speculative story for avoiding the brunt of the dilemma. The basic idea is (a) that consciousness, or anticipations of it, should be seen as pervasive throughout the biosphere; (b) that the biosphere, following Gerald Edelman, can be seen as the sphere of meta-systems irreducible to purely physical particles and forces; and (c) that it is plausible to view {\textquotedblleft}full waking consciousness{\textquotedblright} as occurring at a very high level of meta-systematicity; with the conclusion (d) that full waking consciousness is both an expectable outcome of the biogenic forces and, in virtue of how it combines them, a very singular case.},
	keywords = {sentience; awareness; consciousness; recognition systems; Gerald Edelman},
	url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2012/2/51-63.pdf},
	author = {Pokorn{\'y}, Martin}
}
