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Partial awareness and the illusion of phenomenal consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Sid Kouider ,
Vincent de Gardelle  and
Emmanuel Dupoux
Sid Kouider
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France, and CNRS/EHESS/DEC-ENS, 75005 Paris, France. sid.kouider@ens.frgardelle@ens.frdupoux@lscp.echess.frwww.lscp.net
Vincent de Gardelle
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France, and CNRS/EHESS/DEC-ENS, 75005 Paris, France. sid.kouider@ens.frgardelle@ens.frdupoux@lscp.echess.frwww.lscp.net
Emmanuel Dupoux
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France, and CNRS/EHESS/DEC-ENS, 75005 Paris, France. sid.kouider@ens.frgardelle@ens.frdupoux@lscp.echess.frwww.lscp.net
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Abstract

The dissociation Block provides between phenomenal and access consciousness (P-consciousness and A-consciousness) captures much of our intuition about conscious experience. However, it raises a major methodological puzzle, and is not uniquely supported by the empirical evidence. We provide an alternative interpretation based on the notion of levels of representation and partial awareness.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 510 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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