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Immediate and Reflective Senses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper argues that there are two distinct kinds of senses, immediate senses and reflective senses. Immediate senses are what we are immediately aware of when we are in an intentional mental state, while reflective senses are what we understand of an ...
Mendelovici, Angela
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Observer Dreams: Criteria and Frequency

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerous theories of dreaming consider embodied self‐representation and participation in dream events as key features. However, past studies suggest that the dream self is absent or an uninvolved observer in over 10% of adult REM dreams. Further, these dreams can be similarly elaborate and of comparable narrative structure to participatory ...
Darren M. Lipnicki
wiley   +1 more source

How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Despite recent criticism, the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) is still at the core of a contemporary neuroscience of consciousness.
Sascha Benjamin Fink   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Defence of Cartesian Materialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
One of the principal tasks Dennett sets himself in "Consciousness Explained" is to demolish the Cartesian theatre model of phenomenal consciousness, which in its contemporary garb takes the form of Cartesian materialism: the idea that conscious ...
O'Brien, Gerard, Opie, Jon
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On the Plausibility of Idealism: Refuting Criticisms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Several alternatives vie today for recognition as the most plausible ontology, from physicalism to panpsychism. By and large, these ontologies entail that physical structures circumscribe consciousness by bearing phenomenal properties within their ...
Kastrup, Bernardo
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Consciousness and topologically structured phenomenal spaces

open access: yesConsciousness and Cognition, 2019
There are strong reasons to believe that our conscious inner life is structured, suggested both by introspection as well as scientific psychology. One of the most salient structural characteristics of conscious experiences is known as unity of consciousness.
openaire   +4 more sources

Proposal for an Approach to Artificial Consciousness Based on Self-Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Current research on artificial consciousness is focused on\ud phenomenal consciousness and on functional consciousness.\ud We propose to shift the focus to self-consciousness in order\ud to open new areas of investigation.
Menant, Mr C.
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Slow switching and the psychology of memory

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
This article presents elements of a theory of the representational contents of episodic memory and a new perspective on the relationship between memory and self‐knowledge. These two interrelated outcomes fall out of a novel naturalistic treatment of the debate concerning the compatibility between semantic externalism and a priori self‐knowledge.
Jay Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

How to operationalise consciousness

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2019
Objective To review the way consciousness is operationalised in contemporary research, discuss strengths and weaknesses of current approaches and propose new measures.
Glenn Carruthers   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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