2 papers in the library · 36 citations · publishing 1998-2001
Behavioral and Brain Sciences October 1, 2001 Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie 3 citations
O'Regan & Noë (O&N) fail to address adequately the two most historically important reasons for seeking to explain visual experience in terms of internal representations. They are silent about the apparently inferential nature of perception, and mistaken about the significance of the phenomenology accompanying dreams, hallucinations, and mental imagery.
Australasian Journal of Philosophy September 1, 1998 Gerard J. O’brien, Jon Opie 33 citations
It is commonplace for both philosophers and cognitive scientists to express their allegiance to the “unity of consciousness”. This is the claim that a subject’s phenomenal consciousness, at any one moment in time, is a single thing. This view has had a major influence on computational theories of consciousness. In particular, what we call single-track theories dominate the literature, theories...