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A plug for generic phenomenology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Rick Grush
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. [email protected]://mind.ucsd.edu

Abstract

I briefly sketch a notion of generic phenomenology, and what I call the wave-collapse illusion – a less radical cousin of the refrigerator light illusion – to the effect that transitions from generic to detailed phenomenology are not noticed as phenomenal changes. Change blindness and inattentional blindness can be analyzed as cases where certain things are phenomenally present, but generically so.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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