Psychology, Neuroscience and the Consciousness Dilemma

Abstract

Phenomenality and accessibility are two aspects of conscious experience. “Phenomenality” refers to the felt, experiential aspect of experience, and “accessibility” to a cognitive aspect of it: its availability in general to thought processes, reasoning, decision making, etc. In this paper, I present a dilemma for theorizing about the connection between them. Either there is a conceptual connection linking phenomenality and accessibility (i.e., it is not possible to conceive of a phenomenal experience that is not cognitively accessible for the subject) or there is none but then the empirical evidence will – for principled reasons – be unable to decide the exact nature of the relationship between the two.

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Katalin Balog
Rutgers University - Newark

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