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Temporal Boundaries of Simple Experiences. ... So what is the argument that the temporal
boundaries of simple phenomenal experiences cannot be conceived as fuzzy? ...
... about what lies beyond the boundaries of sensibility. ... the self or soul is 1) simple,
2) immaterial ... without the commensurate spatial and temporal intuitions, it ...
... and physically removing her from the temporal world, Carroll ... instead opting for the
safer boundaries created by ... the would not remember the simple rules their ...
... tests and defy some simple, unitary understanding of ... sections of this chapter.Boundaries
of reality ... predominantely ofcases suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy ...
... of order into spatial and temporal categories ... you experienced the universe as a simple
and unparalleled ... has no metaphysical license to trespass its boundaries. ...
Submitted by hopetopass on April 9, 2006
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I. Introduction
A methodology that I believe has some chance of providing us with a better understanding of the nature of consciousness or of how it could be that consciousness does not exist, if the eliminativists are right is one in which we study our conception or picture of consciousness. Specifically, I am referring to our conception or picture of phenomenal consciousness what one has in mind who, e.g., \"gets\" the mind-body problem, understands the inverted spectrum or absent qualia examples, or Nagels phrase that it is like something to be conscious, and so on. Such individuals, arguably, are thinking about consciousness in a more or less similar way, exploiting a similar conception or picture, similar conceptual structures. Studying such a conception should be, to a reasonable degree at least, just like studying any other conception in cognitive science. And, as with other conceptions, the effort can be a multidisciplinary one, one to which philosophers can contribute. As I said, I think following this route might lead to progress in our understanding of consciousness itself; but even if it does not, characterizing our conception of phenomenal consciousness has importance at least as a piece of psychology. In any event, it is how I am inclined to pursue the study of consciousness these days. This talk describes a small study within that broader project.
In another paper (1) I have argued that our conception of phenomenal consciousness commits us to the idea that there are simple components or elements that in some sense make up our complex phenomenal experience. Actually, it commits us to holding that either there are simples or that our complex phenomenal experience is such that roughly put analysis will always continue ad infinitum, no matter how a complex phenomenal experience gets carved up. The view that there are simples has enough problems as any scan of the history of thought about the mind will reveal ...
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