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Availability: The cognitive basis of experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

David J. Chalmers
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 chalmers@paradox.ucsc.edu

Abstract

Although A-consciousness and P-consciousness are conceptually distinct, a refined notion of A-consciousness makes it plausible that the two are empirically inseparable. I suggest that the notion of direct availability for global control can play a central role here, and draw out some consequences.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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