Attention sheds no light on the origin of phenomenal experience
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| Publication date | 10-2001 |
| Journal | Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
| Volume | Issue number | 24 | 5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 993 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
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| 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 |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X01440118
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