A Theory of Sentience
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1.1 Four assays of quality................................................................ 4 1.2 The structure of appearance.................................................... 11 1.3 Intrinsic versus relational........................................................ 13 1.4 Four refutations....................................................................... 17 2. Qualities and their Places................................................................ 25 2.1 The appearance of space......................................................... 25 2.2 Some brain-mind mysteries..................................................... 26 2.3 Spatial qualia........................................................................... 33 2.4 Appearances partitioned.......................................................... 35 2.5 Ties that bind........................................................................... 38 2.6 Feature-placing introduced...................................................... 43 3 Places Phenomenal and Real............................................................ 47 3.1 Space-time regions.................................................................. 47 3.2 Three varieties of visual field.................................................. 50 3.3 Why I am not an array of impressions..................................... 55 3.4 Why I am not an intentional object......................................... 58 3.5 Sensory identification.............................…
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PRM's answer to the second question appeals to quality space theory, a view that claims that phenomenal qualities can be reduced to the discriminations they allow for the system.
“Its answer to this second question appeals to quality space theory, a view that claims that phenomenal qualities can be reduced to the discriminations they allow for the system (Clark 2000, Rosenthal 2010, Lau et al. 2022).”
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“Topological methods are used elsewhere in the study of consciousness (e.g., Clark, 1996, 2000; Matthen, 2005; Rosenthal, 2010; Raffman, 2015), but not for the purpose of modeling evolutionary change.”
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- Authors
- Clark, A.
- Corresponding author
- Clark, Austen
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000-03-09
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 299
- OpenAlex
- W3127457120
- Cited by
- 301
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.60
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Tijdschrift voor Philosophie
- Philosophy
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Keywords
- sentience, qualia, phenomenal space, visual field
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