Lexicon of Arguments

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I 225
Attention/Awareness/Alertness/Consciousness/Chalmers: Attention is the psychological correlate to (phenomenal) awareness.
Original definition: a state in which certain information is available for linguistic reports and behavioral control.
>Consciousness/Chalmers, >Consciousness.
New: Instead of possible verbal reactions, we have to assume something more general: global control. This is always given when linguistic reports are possible.
>Information, >Statements.
I 226
Information: can also be unconscious here. We also want to take into account persons with limited abilities and animals and be able to attribute attention to them.
>Knowledge, >Thinking, >World/Thinking, >Animals, >Animal language.
I 228
Blindsight/Chalmers: (Humphrey 1992 1, Weiskrantz 1992 2, Cowey and Stoerig 1992 3) suggest that phenomenal experience is a game in these cases.
>Experience.


1. N. Humphrey, A History of Mind. Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness, New York 1992.
2. L. Weiskrantz, Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications. Oxford 1986.
3. A. Cowey, P. Stoerig, Reflections on Bilndsight, in: D. Milner and M. Rugg, (Eds) The Neuropsychology of Consciousness, London 1992.

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