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Consciousness beyond the comparator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Victor A. Shames
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. victor@ccit.arizona.edu
Timothy L. Hubbard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. victor@ccit.arizona.edu

Abstract

Gray's comparator model fails to provide an adequate explanation of consciousness for two reasons. First, it is based on a narrow definition of consciousness that excludes basic phenomenology and active functions of consciousness. Second, match/mismatch decisions can be made without producing an experience of consciousness. The model thus violates the sufficiency criterion.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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