[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Some time ago I was invited to contribute a paper to a forthcoming volume entitled Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was invited because of my paper “What is a Brain State?” Looking back at …
has now officially begun and will run until March 2nd. Stop by https://consciousnessonline.com to get in on the action!
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] There has been a lot of action on the overflow front lately! It started with papers by Ned Block and Dennett and Cohen in Trends in Cognitive Science (Block’s paper criticized, among others, my recent paper on this stuff). These articles spawned a response by me …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] In his classic paper “Two Concepts of Consciousness” David Rosenthal says “…if consciousness is essential to mentality no informative, nontrivial explanation of consciousness is possible” (2005 p 22). The claim is, roughly, that if all mental states are conscious and if there are no mental states …
Brainers may be interested to know about the new blog of Steve Fleming on the science of the self: The Elusive Self
The program for the 4th Online Consciousness Conference is coming together nicely and is nearly finalized. Check it out! The Conference is scheduled for February 17th-March 2nd. Papers will be available online one week before the conference begins. Mark your calendars and spread the word!!
[cross-posted @ Philosophy Sucks!] In Ned Block’s recent paper, published in Trends In Cognitive Science, he has defended his argument that perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access from several recent objections (including from me). It is important that Block is defending overflow from cognitive access since he admits that perceptual consciousness does not overflow …
