TY - GEN
ID - cogprints104
UR - http://cogprints.org/104/
A1 - Velmans, Max
Y1 - 1999///
N2 - O'Brien & Opie defend a "vehicle" rather than a "process" theory of consciousness largely on the grounds that only conscious information is "explicit". I argue that preconscious and unconscious representations can be functionally explicit (semantically well-formed and causally active). I also suggest that their analysis of how neural activation space mirrors the information structure of phenomenal experience fits more naturally into a dual-aspect theory of information than into their reductive physicalism.
KW - neural activation
KW - phenomenal
KW - information
KW - semantic coding
KW - conscious
KW - unconscious
KW - explicit
KW - implicit
TI - Neural activation, information, and phenomenal consciousness.
SP - 172
AV - public
EP - 173
ER -