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WIREs Cognitive Science 2010 Felipe De Brigard, Jesse J. Prinz
AbstractFor the past three decades there has been a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting the view that attention is necessary and sufficient for perceptual representations to become conscious (i.e., for there to be something that it is like to experience a representational perceptual state). This view, however, has been recently questioned on the basis of some alleged...
Cambridge University Press eBooks September 12, 2005 Jesse J. Prinz 89 citations
Introduction: The Problems of Consciousness Reading the philosophical literature on consciousness, one might get the idea that there is just one problem in consciousness studies, the hard problem. That would be a mistake. There are other problems; some are more tractable, but none is easy, and all interesting. The literature on the hard problem gives the impression that we have made little...