Troubles with the orthogonality thesis

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003409526-13" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003409526-13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Troubles with the orthogonality thesis

Original language description

This chapter evaluates some basic assumptions behind the ‘dual’ theories of phenomenal consciousness and finds them problematic for at least some examples of conscious episodes. Because the dual theories claim to be universalist in nature, even a small number of counterexamples damages their status. I will present evidence, both empirical and conceptual, that demonstrates the untenability of the dualist assumptions that conscious phenomenality and its unconscious counterpart possess essentially the same qualities. In doing so, I will primarily attack the claim that is shared by many dual theorists that the procedure responsible for bringing phenomenal content into consciousness serves this sole function and does not influence phenomenal qualities of content. I use the term orthogonality as a convenient shortcut for the conception in which consciousness and content come unproblematically apart. I will conclude by hinting at an alternative proposal that explains the emergence of conscious phenomenality as a single step operation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-14445S" target="_blank" >GA20-14445S: Dual models of phenomenal consciousness</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Conscious and Unconscious Mentality. Examining their Nature, Similarities, and Differences

ISBN

978-1-032-52979-0

Number of pages of the result

11

Pages from-to

174-184

Number of pages of the book

332

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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