Saturday 28 April 2012

Access Con.

Reading: Block,  'Concepts of Consciousness' and Dennet 'Commentary On Block'

Questions:

1. What is (according to Block) the difference between A. consciousness and P. consciousness?
2. What types of mental states have A con?
3. Thoughts/cognitions are conscious if and only if what? (according to Block)
4. Block has 2 examples he thinks show that you can have A con without P con, and vica versa. What are these examples? What do you think of them?
5. How are Dennet's notions of richness of contenet and degree of infulence meant to explain away the examples from question 4? Do you agree with Dennet?

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