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    Foundations of Understanding.Natika Newton - 1996 - John Benjamins.
    How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should be to explain, not how symbols, mental or otherwise, can refer to or mean states of affairs in the external world, but how they can mean something to us, the users. The essence of intentionality is shown (...)
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  2. On viewing pain as a secondary quality.Natika Newton - 1989 - Noûs 23 (5):569-98.
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    Three paradoxes of phenomenal consciousness: Bridging the explanatory gap.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 1998 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (4):419-42.
    Any physical explanation of consciousness seems to leave unresolved the ‘explanatory gap': Isn't it conceivable that all the elements in that explanation could occur, with the same information processing outcomes as in a conscious process, but in the absence of consciousness? E.g. any digital computational process could occur in the absence of consciousness. To resolve this dilemma, we propose a biological-process-oriented physiological- phenomenological characterization of consciousness that addresses three ‘paradoxical’ qualities seemingly incompatible with the empirical realm: The dual location of (...)
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  4. Dennett on intrinsic intentionality.Natika Newton - 1992 - Analysis 52 (1):18-23.
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    (1 other version)Experience and Imagery.Natika Newton - 1982 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 20 (4):475-487.
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    The sensorimotor theory of cognition.Natika Newton - 1993 - Pragmatics and Cognition 1 (2):267-305.
    The sensorimotor theory of cognition holds that human cognition, along with that of other animals, is determined by sensorimotor structures rather than by uniquely human linguistic structures. The theory has been offered to explain the use of bodily terminology in nonphysical contexts, and to recognize the role of experienced embodiment in cognition. This paper defends a version of the theory which specifies that reasoning makes use of mental models constructed by means of action-planning mechanisms. Evidence is offered from cognitive psychology, (...)
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    Visualizing is imagining seeing: A reply to white.Natika Newton - 1989 - Analysis 49 (March):77-81.
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    Consciousness, qualia, and re-entrant signaling.Natika Newton - 1991 - Behavior and Philosophy 19 (1):21-41.
    There is a distinction between phenomenal properties and the "phenomenality" of those properties: e.g. between what red is like and what it is like to experience red. To date, reductive accounts explain the former, but not the latter: Nagel is right that they leave something out. This paper attempts a reductive account of what it is like to have a perceptual experience. Four features of such experience are distinguished: the externality, unity, and self-awareness belonging to the content of conscious experience, (...)
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  9. Conscious emotion in a dynamic system: How I can know how I feel.Natika Newton - 2000 - In Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (eds.), The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect, and Self-organization : an Anthology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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    Emergence and the uniqueness of consciousness.Natika Newton - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (9-10):47-59.
    This paper argues that phenomenal consciousness arises from the forced blending of components that are incompatible, or even logically contradictory, when combined by direct methods available to the subject; and that it is, as a result, analytically, ostensively and comparatively indefinable. First, I examine a variety of cases in which unpredictable novelties arise from the forced merging of contradictory elements, or at least elements that are unable in human experience to co-occur. The point is to show that the uniqueness of (...)
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    Churchland on Direct Introspection of Brain States.Natika Newton - 1986 - Analysis 46 (2):97.
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    Error in action and belief.Natika Newton - 1989 - Philosophia 19 (4):363-401.
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    The interdependence of consciousness and emotion.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 2000 - Consciousness and Emotion 1 (1):1-10.
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    Humphreys solution.Natika Newton - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (4):62-66.
    [opening paragraph]: It is easy to conceptualize a problem in a way that prevents a solution. If the conceptualization is entrenched in one's culture or profession, it may appear unalterable. But there is so much precedent for the discovery of fruitful reconceptualizations that in the case of most philosophical and scientific puzzles it is probably irrational ever to give up trying. The notion of qualia, understood as phenomenal properties of sensations that can exist as objects of experience for a conscious (...)
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    (1 other version)Machine understanding and the chinese room.Natika Newton - 1988 - Philosophical Psychology 1 (2):207 – 215.
    John Searle has argued that one can imagine embodying a machine running any computer program without understanding the symbols, and hence that purely computational processes do not yield understanding. The disagreement this argument has generated stems, I hold, from ambiguity in talk of 'understanding'. The concept is analysed as a relation between subjects and symbols having two components: a formal and an intentional. The central question, then becomes whether a machine could possess the intentional component with or without the formal (...)
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    Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 2005 - John Benjamins.
    The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction.
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  17. Irwin Goldstein.Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton & Peter Zachar - 2002 - Consciousness and Emotion 3 (1):21-33.
  18. Luc Faucher and Christine Tappolet.Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton & Peter Zachar - 2002 - Consciousness and Emotion 3 (2):105-144.
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    The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect, and Self-organization : an Anthology.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (eds.) - 2000 - Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    CHAPTER 1 Integrating the Physiological and Phenomenological Dimensions of Affect and Motivation Ralph D. Ellis Clark Atlanta University A neglected but ...
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  20. The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect and Self-Organization- An Anthology. Advances in Consciousness Research.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (eds.) - 2000 - John Benjamins.
  21. The unity of consciousness: An enactivist approach.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 2005 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 26 (4):225-280.
    The enactivist account of consciousness posits that motivated activation of sensorimotor action imagery anticipates possible action affordances of environmental situations, resulting in representation of the environment with a conscious “feel” associated with the valences motivating the anticipations. This approach makes the mind–body problem and the problem of mental causation easier to resolve, and offers promise for understanding how consciousness results from natural processes. Given a process-oriented understanding of the way many systems in non-conscious nature are “proto-motivated” toward realizing unactualized possibilities, (...)
     
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    Arguing about consciousness: A blind Alley and a red Herring.Natika Newton - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):162-163.
    O'Brien & Opie hold that phenomenal experience should be identified with “stable patterns of activation” across the brain's neural networks, and that this proposal has the potential for closing the ‘explanatory gap' between mental states and brain processes. I argue that they have too much respect for the conceivability argument and that their proposal already does much to close the explanatory gap, but that a “perspicuous nexus” can in principle never be achieved.
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    Acting and perceiving in body and mind.Natika Newton - 1985 - Philosophy Research Archives 11:407-429.
    In this paper I sketch an account of (a) the origin of the terms and concepts of folk psychology, and (b) the true nature of mental states. I argue that folk psychology is built on metaphors for the functioning physical body, and that mental states are neurological traces which serve as schematic ‘mental images’ of those same functions. Special attention is paid to the folk psychology of self-consciousness. In particular, I argue that the notion of introspection is mistaken, and I (...)
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  24. Introspection and perception.Natika Newton - 1988 - Topoi 7 (March):25-30.
    Sydney Shoemaker argues that introspection, unlike perception, provides no identification information about the self, and that knowledge of one''s mental states should be conceived as arising in a direct and unmediated fashion from one''s being in those states. I argue that while one does not identify aself as the subject of one''s states, one does frequently identify and misidentify thestates, in ways analogous to the identification of objects in perception, and that in discourse about one''s mental states the self plays (...)
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    Introspection and the secret agent.Natika Newton - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (4):629-629.
    The notion of introspection is unparsimonious and unnecessary to explain the experiential grounding of our mentalistic concepts. Instead, we can look at subtle proprioceptive experiences, such as the experience of agency in planning motor acts, which may be explained in part by the phenomenon of collateral discharge or efference copy. Proprioceptive sensations experienced during perceptual and motor activity may account for everything that has traditionally been attributed to a special mental activity called “introspection.”.
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    Metacognition and consciousness.Natika Newton - 1995 - Pragmatics and Cognition 3 (2):285-297.
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    Privileged Access and Merleau-Ponty.Natika Newton - 2002 - In Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The visible and the invisible in the interplay between philosophy, literature, and reality. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 71--78.
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    (1 other version)Problem reprezentacji w teoriach poznania ucieleśnionego.Natika Newton - 2012 - Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T):66-82.
    This paper looks at a central issue with embodiment theories in cognition: the role, if any, they provide for mental representation. Thelen and Smith (1994) hold that the concept of representations is either vacuous or misapplied in such systems. Others maintain a place for representations (e.g. Clark 1996), but are imprecise about their nature and role. It is difficult to understand what those could be if representations are understood in the same sense as that used by computationalists: fixed or long-lasting (...)
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    The art of representation: Support for an enactive approach.Natika Newton - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (3):411-411.
    Grush makes an important contribution to a promising way of viewing mental representation: as a component activity in sensorimotor processes. Grush shows that there need be no entities in our heads that would count as representations, but that, nevertheless, the process of representation can be defined so as to include both natural and artificial (e.g., linguistic or pictorial) representing.
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  30. The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness: Empirical support for the embodied mind--introduction.Natika Newton - 2001 - Consciousness and Emotion 2 (2):273-276.
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    The role of action representations in the dynamics of embodied cognition.Natika Newton - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):58-59.
    Thelen et al. present a convincing explanation of the A-not-B error, but contrary to their own claims, their explanation essentially involves mental representations. As is too common among cognitive scientists, they equate mental representations with representations of external physical objects. They clearly show, however, that representations of bodily actions on physical objects are central to the dynamical system producing the error.
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    A critical review of Nicholas Maxwell's the human world in the physical universe: Consciousness, free will, and evolution. [REVIEW]Natika Newton - 2003 - Philosophical Psychology 16 (1):149 – 156.
    Nicholas Maxwell takes on the ambitious project of explaining, both epistemologically and metaphysically, the physical universe and human existence within it. His vision is appealing; he unites the physical and the personal by means of the concepts of aim and value, which he sees as the keys to explaining traditional physical puzzles. Given the current popularity of theories of goal-oriented dynamical systems in biology and cognitive science, this approach is timely. But a large vision requires firm and nuanced arguments to (...)
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    Review of The Bodily Nature of Consciousness by Kathleen V. Wider, Cornell University Press, 1997, 207 pp. [REVIEW]Natika Newton - 1997 - Behavior and Philosophy 25 (2).