<p><span class="drop">T</span>his is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos and Complexity (given by the wonderfully -talented but stingy on the grade <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bendov.info');" href="http://bendov.info">Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov</a>, who I wholeheartedly recommend studying with if you ever have the chance). I figured since it was in English, I may as well post it here for posterity. Enjoy</p> <h1 style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Introduction</h1> <p style="direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.2pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal">Consciousness is notoriously difficult to define, though as some have pointed out, we all know what it is from direct experience. Throughout the history of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, there have been many attempts at deciphering the mystery. Others have asked whether there is any mystery at all. Should consciousness be explained or rather explained away^{<a href="#footnote-1-28" id="footnote-link-1-28" title="See the footnote.">1</a>}?</p> <p style="direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.2pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.2pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal">The fields of Chaos and Complexity theories have opened a new window to looking at the natural and social sciences. With the proliferation of personal computers, mathematic research in the behaviour of nonlinear dynamic systems has quite literally blurred the boundaries of what science can and cannot do.</p> <p style="direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.2pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.2pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr" class="MsoNormal">I will attempt in this essay to present how certain approaches to both cognitive science and philosophy of mind fit well within the scientific and philosophical framework suggested by Chaos and Complexity theories.</p>