The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 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]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 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 ...
Morten Overgaard
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Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap [PDF]
Frontiers 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]
Frontiers 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]
Frontiers 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]
Frontiers in PsychologyIn 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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Towards a Mathematical Structure of Global Phenomenal Consciousness [PDF]
EntropyRecent 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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The causal efficacy of consciousness: a neuroscientific analysis and explanation [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceThis study analyzes neural and behavioral events occurring before, during, and after the emergence of a pain quale and the consciousness of that pain to examine the causal efficacy of the quale and consciousness.
Chirapat Ukachoke
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The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 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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Why and how access consciousness can account for phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Lionel Naccache
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