Relevance of Interdisciplinary Approach in the Study of Consciousness
RUDN Journal of Philosophy December 15, 2023 J. Sokolova
Consciousness is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon studied across philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and other fields. The author argues that because consciousness is an umbrella term with different meanings in different contexts, and because core issues like the hard problem, mind-body problem, explanatory gap, and implications of artificial intelligence remain unresolved, interdisciplinary approaches offer the greatest heuristic potential for advancing understanding. The paper reviews key thinkers from the late 1980s—Baars, Dennett, Penrose, Crick, Koch, Chalmers—who helped establish consciousness as an interdisciplinary research domain.