Consciousness operationalized, a debate realigned.
Consciousness and Cognition October 1, 2017 Peter Carruthers, Bénédicte Veillet 43 citations
This paper revisits the debate about cognitive phenomenology. It elaborates, defends, and improves on our earlier proposal for resolving that debate, according to which the test for irreducible phenomenology is the presence of explanatory gaps. After showing how proposals like ours have been misunderstood or misused by others, we deploy our operationalization to argue that the correct way to...