Access and what it is like
Behavioral and Brain Sciences June 1, 1995 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00038322 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 22 |
| Key points | Argues that Block's examples of superblindsight, the pneumatic drill, and the Sperling experiments fail to show that P-consciousness and A-consciousness can come apart, because on certain tendentious but not implausible construals the two terms refer to the same psychological phenomenon. |
Abstract
Abstract Block's cases of superblindsight, the pneumatic drill, and the Sperling experiments do not show that P-consciousness and Aconsciousness can come apart. On certain tendentious but not implausible construals of the concepts of P- and A-consciousness, they refer to the same psychological phenomenon.