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What is cognitively accessed?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman
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Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1006. harman@princeton.eduhttp://www.princeton.edu/~harman/
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Abstract

Is Block's issue about accessing an experience or its object? Having certain “flow” experiences appears to be incompatible with accessing the experience itself. And any experience of an object accesses that object. Such access either counts as cognitive or does not. Either way, Block's issue seems resolvable without appeal to the scientific considerations he describes.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 505
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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