Overflow, access, and attention

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (5-6):530-548 (2007)
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Abstract

In this response to 32 commentators, I start by clarifying the overflow argument. I explain why the distinction between generic and specific phenomenology is important and why we are justified in acknowledging specific phenomenology in the overflow experiments. Other issues discussed are the relations among report, cognitive access, and attention; panpsychic disaster; the mesh between psychology and neuroscience; and whether consciousness exists.

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Consciousness and Experience.William G. Lycan - 1996 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

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