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Consciousness and focal attention: Answer to John Searle

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Commentary on Searle John R. (1990) Consciousness, explanatory inversion and cognitive science. BBS 13:585–642.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Bela Julesz
Bela Julesz*
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Laboratory of Vision Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Electronic mail: julesz@cogsci-1.rutgers.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1993, pp. 191 - 193
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