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Identifying phenomenal consciousness

Consciousness and Cognition, 2009
This paper examines the possibility of finding evidence that phenomenal consciousness is independent of access. The suggestion reviewed is that we should look for isomorphisms between phenomenal and neural activation spaces. It is argued that the fact that phenomenal spaces are mapped via verbal report is no problem for this methodology.
Elizabeth Schier
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Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesProgress in Brain Research, 2009
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 Levy, Julian Săvulescu
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