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Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The role of emergence in the creation of consciousness has been debated for over a century, but it remains unresolved. In particular there is controversy over the claim that a “strong” or radical form of emergence is required to explain phenomenal ...
Todd E. Feinberg, Jon Mallatt
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Neural Computations Underlying Phenomenal Consciousness: A Higher Order Syntactic Thought Theory [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Problems are raised with the global workspace hypothesis of consciousness, for example about exactly how global the workspace needs to be for consciousness to suddenly be present.
Edmund T. Rolls   +2 more
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Visual Attention Modulates Phenomenal Consciousness: Evidence From a Change Detection Study [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness has been influential in the field of consciousness studies. Both Block and Lamme proposed that access consciousness, or narrow cognitive accessibility, is related to a limited capacity working ...
Luca Simione   +6 more
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Is phenomenal consciousness really a special case in science? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
In the metaphysics of science, it is often held that higher-level properties are grounded in micro-physical properties. According to many philosophers, however, phenomenal consciousness resists this view.
Klaus Gärtner   +3 more
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Phenomenal consciousness and cognitive access. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2018
In consciousness research, it is common to distinguish between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness. Recently, a number of scientists have attempted to show that phenomenal content can be empirically separated from cognitive access and, accordingly, that the mental content that is accessed is not (always) identical to the content that is ...
Overgaard M.
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The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
Ian Phillips
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Why and how access consciousness can account for phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
Lionel Naccache
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Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and philosophers to advocate physicalist methods in explaining human nature ...
Samad Hosseini, Abbas Yazdani
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A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon. Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental
Nir Lahav   +2 more
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Representationalism, skepticism and phenomenal realism

open access: yesPrometeica, 2022
The irreducibility thesis of phenomenal consciousness can only succeed against the sceptical attack and avoid solipsism iff it can coherently establish the transition from subjective certainty to the objectivity of knowledge. The sceptical attack on the
Manas Kumar Sahu
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