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J Kevin O'Regan

2 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2021-2022

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How voluntary control over information and body movements determines "what it's like" to have perceptual, bodily, emotional and mental experiences.

Frontiers in Psychology 2022 J Kevin O'Regan 1 citation

Two very fundamental aspects of phenomenal experiences underline the fact that they seem to have "something it's like." One aspect is the fact that experiences have a locus: they Can seem "external" (perceptual), "internal" (interoceptive, bodily or emotional) or "mental." A second fundamental aspect is the imposingness of experiences. They can seem "present" to us in different ways, sometimes...

Missing: Empirical theories of phenomenal consciousness.

Cognitive Neuroscience 2021 J Kevin O'Regan 1 citation

Doerig et al. evaluate how current empirical theories approach access consciousness, but they neglect how they approach phenomenal consciousness - probably because most theories don't deal with phenomenal consciousness at all. One exception is the sensorimotor theory, but Doerig et al. did not evaluate it as being directed to phenomenal consciousness.