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Gerard O'Brien

2 papers in the library · publishing 1999-2004

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Vehicle, process, and hybrid theories of consciousness

Behavioral and Brain Sciences April 1, 2004 Gerard O'Brien, Jonathan Opie

Abstract Martínez-Manrique contends that we overlook a possible nonconnectionist vehicle theory of consciousness. We argue that the position he develops is better understood as a hybrid vehicle/process theory. We assess this theory and in doing so clarify the commitments of both vehicle and process theories of consciousness.

What's really doing the work here? Knowledge representation or the Higher-Order Thought theory of consciousness?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences October 1, 1999 Gerard O'Brien, Jonathan P. Opie

Dienes & Perner offer us a theory of explicit and implicit knowledge that promises to systematise a large and diverse body of research in cognitive psychology. Their advertised strategy is to unpack this distinction in terms of explicit and implicit representation. But when one digs deeper one finds the “Higher-Order Thought” theory of consciousness doing much of the work. This reduces both the...