Baars Falls Prey to the Timidity He Rejects:Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis

PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 1 (1994)
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Baars affirms Crick and Koch's position that the timidity most cognitive scientists show in the face of consciousness is ridiculous. Unfortunately, all three succumb to a variation on the timidity they deprecate. Furthermore, Baars' own method, ``contrastic analysis,'' is at odds with the computational conception of mind that dominates contemporary cognitive science.

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Selmer Bringsjord
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