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Two kinds of access

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Joseph Levine
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9269. [email protected]://www.umass.edu/philosophy/faculty/levine.htm

Abstract

I explore the implications of recognizing two forms of access that might be constitutively related to phenomenal consciousness. I argue, in support of Block, that we don't have good reason to think that the link to reporting mechanisms is the kind of access that distinguishes an experience from a mere state.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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