Attention sheds no light on the origin of phenomenal experience

Authors
Publication date 10-2001
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume | Issue number 24 | 5
Pages (from-to) 993
Number of pages 1
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract In O'Regan & Noë's (O&N's) account for the phenomenal experience of seeing, awareness is equated to what is within the current focus of attention. They find no place for a distinction between phenomenal and access awareness. In doing so, they essentially present a dualistic solution to the mind-brain problem, and ignore that we do have phenomenal experience of what is outside the focus of attention.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Comment to: J.K. O'Regan, A. Noë (2001) A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 25, iss. 5, pp. 939-973.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X01440118
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