Lexicon of Arguments

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II 547
Consciousness/Ambiguity/Block: there is a common conception that consciousness is ambiguous: information processing/access consciousness.
Block: we all use "consciously" even in both ways.
Alternative: cluster concept of consciousness.
Ambiguity/Block: if there merging can occur, we have ambiguity, not a cluster concept. E.g. speed: the blurriness of a passing car is not a result of the average speed. (No implicit relativation).
Consciousness/Ambiguity/Natural Kind/Block: it is a difference, however, whether one is considers consciousness to be ambiguous, or whether one denies that it is a natural kind.
The former is an assertion about the concept, the latter about the object.
The former may be decided reflexively, the latter only empirically.
II 551
Consciousness/Ambiguity/Block: since there are mergers of P consciousness and
a-consciousness in the consciousness, the term must be conceived as ambiguous, and not as a cluster concept.
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Terminology:
Metzinger II 458
Def Z-consciousness/terminology/block: to be z-conscious of a fact means that the information is available for rational reasoning. (Functional term).
P-consciousness: phenomenal consciousness. >Consciousness.

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