TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints596
UR  - http://cogprints.org/596/
A1  - Velmans, Max
Y1  - 1996///
N2  - Viewed from a first-person perspective consciousness appears to be necessary for complex, novel human activity - but viewed from a third-person perspective consciousness appears to play no role in the activity of brains, producing a "causal paradox". To resolve this paradox one needs to distinguish consciousness of processing from consciousness accompanying processing or causing processing. Accounts of consciousness/brain causal interactions switch between first- and third-person perspectives. However, epistemically, the differences between first- and third-person access are fundamental. First- and third-person accounts are complementary and mutually irreducible.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - psychological complementarity
KW  -  causality
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  first person
KW  -  third person
KW  -  causal paradox
KW  -  mind
KW  -  conscious process
KW  -  perspectival switching
KW  -  mixed perspective explanations
TI  - Consciousness and the "Causal Paradox"
SP  - 538
AV  - public
EP  - 542
ER  -

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