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Consciousness by the lights of logic and commonsense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Selmer Bringsjord
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 selmer@rpi.edu www.rpi.edu/~brings
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Abstract

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I urge return by the lights of logic and commonsense to a dialectical tabula rasa – according to which: (1) consciousness, in the ordinary pre-analytic sense of the term, is identified with P-consciousness, and “A-consciousness” is supplanted by suitably configured terms from its Blockian definition; (2) the supposedly fallacious Searlean argument for the view that a function of P-consciousness is to allow flexible and creative cognition is enthymematic and, when charitably specified, quite formidable.

Type
Continuing Commentary
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press