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S Shoemaker

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Functionalism and consciousness.

Ciba Foundation symposium 1993 S Shoemaker

It is widely held that a mental state and the subject's introspective belief about it are always 'distinct existences' and only contingently connected. This suggests that for each sort of mental state there could be a creature that is introspectively 'blind' with respect to states of that sort, meaning that while it is capable of having such states, and of conceiving of itself as having them,...