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Phenomenal experience and science: Separated by a “brick wall”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Michael Pauen
Michael Pauen
Affiliation:
Institut für Philosophie, Phillips-Universität, Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany. [email protected] staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~pauen/homepage.htm
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Abstract

Palmer's principled distinction between first-person experience and scientific access is called into question. First, complete color transformations of experience and memory may be undetectable even from the first-person perspective. Second, transformations of (say) pain experiences seem to be intrinsically connected to certain effects, thus giving science access to these experiences, in principle. Evidence from pain research and emotional psychology indicates that further progress can be made.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 968
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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