TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints395
UR  - http://cogprints.org/395/
A1  - Velmans, M.
TI  - DEFINING CONSCIOUSNESS
Y1  - 1997///
N2  - The following extracts with connecting comments suggest a departure point for a definitions of consciousness that preserves its everyday phenomenology while allowing an understanding of what consciousness is to deepen as scientific investigation proceeds. I argue that current definitions are often theory-driven rather than following the contours of ordinary experience. Consequently they are sometimes too broad, sometimes too narrow, and sometimes not definitions of phenomenal consciousness at all. As an alternative, an ecologically valid, reflexive approach to consciousness is suggested that is consistent with science and with common sense.
AV  - public
KW  - Consciousness
KW  -  definitions
KW  -  dualism
KW  -  reductionism
KW  -  reflexive model
KW  -  perceptual projection
KW  -  science. subjective
KW  -  objective.
ER  -

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