TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints245
UR  - http://cogprints.org/245/
A1  - Velmans, Max
Y1  - 1990///
N2  - What, in essence, characterizes the mind? According to Searle, the potential to be conscious provides the only definitive criterion. Thus, conscious states are unquestionably "mental"; "shallow unconscious" states are also "mental" by virtue of their capacity to be conscious (at least in principle); but there are no "deep unconscious mental states" - i.e. those rules and procedures without access to consciousness, inferred by cognitive science to characterize the operations of the unconscious mind are not mental at all. Indeed, according to Searle, they have no ontological status - they are simply ways of describing some interesting facets of purely physiological phenomena.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Searle
KW  -  connection principle
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  functionalism
KW  -  mind
KW  -  first person
KW  -  third person
KW  -  aspectual shape
KW  -  unconscious
TI  - Is the Mind Conscious, Functional or Both?
SP  - 629
AV  - public
EP  - 630
ER  -

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