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Blocking out the distinction between sensation and perception: Superblindsight and the case of Helen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Nicholas Humphrey
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Darwin College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB3 9EU, United Kingdom

Abstract

Block's notion of P-consciousness catches too much in its net. He would do better to exclude all states that do not have a sensory component. I question what he says about my work with the “blind” monkey, Helen.

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