Evolving Phenomenal Consciousness

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Psychology

 

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Joyce C

 

Date added:

May 14, 2016

 

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University

 

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On Carruthers' view, once the organism's own first-order sensory representations become directly available for conceptualization they are de facto phenomenally conscious. Once experiences become phenomenally conscious, then further adaptive benefits may follow -- particularly, Carruthers thinks, for making appearance-reality distinctions (2000:232; see also Allen & Bekoff 1997)...
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I shall argue that Carruthers' account fails to explain why we are phenomenally conscious in all the ways that we are. In other words, I shall put pressure on the alleged generality of this account, which is in evidence in this passage from chapter 8: Now the important point for our purposes is that the mind-reading faculty would have needed to have access to a full range of perceptual representations...
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