Higher-order awareness, misrepresentation and function
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Higher-order awareness, misrepresentation and function.
Conscious mental states are states we are in some way aware of. I compare higher-order theories of consciousness, which explain consciousness by appeal to such higher-order awareness (HOA), and first-order theories, which do not, and I argue that higher-order theories have substantial explanatory advantages. The higher-order nature of our awareness of our conscious states suggests an analogy wi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0353