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An epistemological account of visual consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Peter D. Sparks  and
E. E. Krieckhaus
Peter D. Sparks*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO80309
E. E. Krieckhaus*
Affiliation:
Village Information II, New York, NY10011
*
sparks@psych.colorado.edu
krieck@worldnet.att.net
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Abstract:

O'Regan & Noë's (O&N's) explanation of our stream of experience as activities depends on their denial of that palpable, most real aspect of experience: what they call “qualitative experience.” Given the ontological primacy of the qualitative givenness of our experience and the complete absence of actions as experiences in our stream of consciousness, though, all such reductionistic attempts must fail.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 907 - 908
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

Commentary onO'Regan & Noë (2001). A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness. BBS 24(5):939–1031.

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