phenomenal consciousness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphenomenalandconsciousness
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phenomenal
adjective
uk/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nəl/us/fəˈnɑː.mə.nəl/
extremely successful or special, especially in a ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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The issue of why emotional states feel like something is part of the much larger problem ofphenomenalconsciousness.
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If so, what remains forphenomenalconsciousnessto do?
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The fallacy is: an obvious function of the machinery of access-consciousness is illicitly transferred tophenomenalconsciousness.
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During dreaming,phenomenalconsciousnessis causally isolated from the stimulus environment, from the concurrent state of the physiological body, and from behavioral output systems.
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A second problematic aspect concerns the problem of knowing whether any adaptive behavior is causally related tophenomenalconsciousness.
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Arguably, it isphenomenalconsciousnessthat lies at the heart of our pre-theoretical notion of consciousness.
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If this is right, then our account ofphenomenalconsciousnesscannot rest solely upon the operation of higher-order thought.
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An important part of the functional role ofphenomenalconsciousnessseems to be to make information available for higher-order planning and reflection.
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First,phenomenalconsciousness(its contents) has a structure as well as a dynamics.
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Otherwise, the physical universe is devoid ofphenomenalconsciousness.
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Most scientists would agree thatphenomenalconsciousnesshas physical correlates that can in principle be viewed from a thirdperson perspective.
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Phenomenalconsciousnesscannot easily be shown to deal with complex cognitive operations such as those involved in language translation and creativity.
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How, one might ask, can sensorimotor contingencies explainphenomenalconsciousnessany better than other proposals that have been made?
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Rolls admits that some residual mystery surrounds the step from the sort of processing model he invokes and thephenomenalconsciousnesshe aims to explain.
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By this criterion, not only bats, but also a great portion of the animal kingdom, perhaps all animal species except humans, turn out to lackphenomenalconsciousness.
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If so, any role attributed tophenomenalconsciousnesswill already have been fulfilled by its physical correlates (this is sometimes referred to as the problem of overdetermination).
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I am more interested in their alternative thesis - that the operations of mind conventionally attributed to a cognitive unconscious are in fact carried out by a self-organisingphenomenalconsciousness.
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However, the nature of ambiguity is not at all clear, and the thesis that "consciousness" is ambiguous betweenphenomenalconsciousnessand access consciousness is far from obvious.
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Indeed, a quick survey of the literature shows that the dependent variables used in most of the laboratory experiments are a direct reflection of the participants'phenomenalconsciousness.
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Phenomenalconsciousnessis experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be in that state.
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