• Title of article

    How chromatic phenomenality largely overflow its cognitive accessibility

  • Author/Authors

    Beeckmans، نويسنده , , John، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    917
  • To page
    928
  • Abstract
    It has been suggested (Block, 2007) that the core neural bases for visual phenomenal consciousness and for access consciousness are located in anatomically separate regions. If this is correct, and if, as Block suggests, the core neural substrate of visual phenomenality is located early in the visual cortex where detailed chromatic information is available, then it would be reasonable to infer that our intuitions of chromatically rich visual phenomenality are plausible. It is furthermore suggested that during perception cognitive access to this chromatic cornucopia is mediated through mereologically superordinate (MS) concepts that regionally characterize both semantic and quantitative integrated properties within complex visual percepts. Such concepts contain much less information than do the particulars that they characterize, implying that the information represented in phenomenal consciousness greatly exceeds the information in the accompanying access consciousness.
  • Keywords
    Perception , Vision , PHENOMENOLOGY , conceptualization , Access consciousness , Phenomenality
  • Journal title
    Consciousness and Cognition
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Consciousness and Cognition
  • Record number

    2291408