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ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Embedding mental files in the world
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious, despite strong apparent reasons to the contrary. To this end, I present a picture on which algorithmic AI systems comprise dispositional properties that realize categorical phenomenal properties where the ...
Samuel Kimpton‐Nye
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The Question of Referentiality
ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
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Therapeutic Insight and Aspect Perception
ABSTRACT In psychotherapy patients gain new insights into their mental life. Although philosophers have used examples from psychotherapy to make points in debates on self‐knowledge, there has been little serious effort to understand the nature and epistemology of therapeutic insight events. The paper fills that gap.
Adrian Kind, William Child
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Minimal self-consciousness and the flying man argument. [PDF]
Gallagher S.
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Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior [PDF]
Mckeown B +14 more
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Prolonged disorders of consciousness: Damaged brains, damaged minds? [PDF]
Keizer B, van Erp WS.
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