Abstract The postdictive experimental paradigm is not superior to the direct detection paradigm, according to which the best strategy to identify the neural correlate of visual consciousness is to treat postdiction as a confounding factor. We could at most establish an equal claim to legitimacy of the two paradigms; hence, there is no puzzle about the function of a “slow” consciousness.
In this article, I undertake the tasks: (i) of reconsidering Feigl’s notion of a ‘nomological dangler’ in light of recent discussion about the viability of accommodating phenomenal properties, or qualia, within a physicalist picture of reality; and (ii) of constructing an argument to the effect that nomological danglers, including the way qualia are understood to be related to brain states by...