Sensorimotor Theory and the Problems of Consciousness
March 1, 2017 DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/4uqnx (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that the sensorimotor theory, which construes conscious experience as an attribute of the whole embodied agent's skill-driven interactions with the environment, can be positioned as a response to well-known problems of consciousness. The paper further proposes a sensorimotor account of why perceptual consciousness occurs rather than not. |
Abstract
The sensorimotor theory is an influential account of perception and phenomenal qualities that builds, in an empirically-supported way, on the basic claim that conscious experience is best construed as an attribute of the whole embodied agent’s skill-driven interactions with the environment. This paper, in addition to situating the theory as a response to certain well-known problems of consciousness, develops a sensorimotor account of why we are perceptually conscious rather than not.