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360Consciousness and Theory of Mind: a Common Theory?Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (1): 73-89. 2016.Many philosophers and scientists have argued that the difference between phenomenally conscious states and other kind of states lies in the implicit self-awareness that conscious states have. Higher-Order Representationalist theories, attempt to explain such a self-awareness by means of a higher-order representation. Consciousness relies on our capacity to represent our own mental states, consciousness depends on our Theory of Mind. Such an ability can, at least conceptually, be decomposed into …Read more
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856What panpsychists should reject: on the incompatibility of panpsychism and organizational invariantismPhilosophical Studies 172 (7): 1833-1846. 2015.Some philosophers, like David Chalmers, have either shown their sympathy for, or explicitly endorsed, the following two principles: Panpsychism—roughly the thesis that the mind is ubiquitous throughout the universe—and Organizational Invariantism—the principle that holds that two systems with the same fine-grained functional organization will have qualitatively identical experiences. The purpose of this paper is to show the tension between the arguments that back up both principles. This tension…Read more
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1168Dreams: an empirical way to settle the discussion between cognitive and non-cognitive theories of consciousnessSynthese 191 (2): 263-285. 2014.Cognitive theories claim, whereas non-cognitive theories deny, that cognitive access is constitutive of phenomenology. Evidence in favor of non-cognitive theories has recently been collected by Block and is based on the high capacity of participants in partial-report experiments compared to the capacity of the working memory. In reply, defenders of cognitive theories have searched for alternative interpretations of such results that make visual awareness compatible with the capacity of the worki…Read more
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