The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Is phenomenal consciousness constitutively related to cognitive access? Despite being a fundamental issue for any science of consciousness, its empirical study faces a severe methodological puzzle. Recent years have seen numerous attempts to address this puzzle, either in practice, by offering evidence for a positive or negative answer, or in principle,
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Phenomenal consciousness and cognitive access [PDF]
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 ...
Morten Overgaard
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Is phenomenal consciousness really a special case in science? [PDF]
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 Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Towards a Mathematical Structure of Global Phenomenal Consciousness [PDF]
Recent work in the structural approach to consciousness has shown great promise as a research paradigm for the formal and empirical study of the phenomenal qualities of experience, i.e., qualia.
Zoe Lee-Youngzie +4 more
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Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Recent work in neuroimaging suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state are actually conscious. In this paper, we critically examine this new evidence. We argue that though it remains open to alternative interpretations, it strongly suggests the presence of consciousness in some patients. However, we argue that its
Neil Louis Levy, Julian SĂVULESCU
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The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood [PDF]
We summarize our recently introduced Projective Consciousness Model (PCM) (Rudrauf et al., 2017) and relate it to outstanding conceptual issues in the theory of consciousness.
Kenneth Williford +3 more
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What Is It like to Be a Brain Organoid? Phenomenal Consciousness in a Biological Neural Network [PDF]
Montoya I, Montoya D.
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