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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 10 facts
claimNed Block (1995) defines access consciousness as a state where a mental state is conscious based on its availability to interact with other states and the access one has to its content, rather than its qualitative feel.
referenceBernard Baars (1988) proposed that the 'easy problems' of consciousness, such as the dynamics of access consciousness, can be explained through the functional or computational organization of the brain.
perspectiveVictor Lamme (2006) and Ned Block (2007) argue that local recurrent activity between higher and lower areas within the sensory cortex is sufficient for phenomenal consciousness, even in the absence of verbal reportability or other indicators of access consciousness.
claimFlexibility and sophisticated modes of control may be associated with phenomenal and access forms of consciousness.
claimThe properties of access consciousness may differ significantly from those of qualitative or phenomenal consciousness, and both may differ from reflexive or narrative consciousness.
claimIn the context of access consciousness, a visual state is considered conscious if the visual information it carries is generally available for use and guidance by the organism, regardless of whether it has a qualitative or phenomenal feel.
claimThird-person empirical data gathered by external observers is required for studying functional types of consciousness like access consciousness, as well as phenomenal and qualitative consciousness.
claimThe 'Why' question regarding consciousness is a general problem that likely lacks a single or uniform answer because different types of consciousness—such as access, phenomenal, and meta-mental—may have distinct roles and values.
claimNed Block (1995) defines access consciousness as being tied to the role of information availability.
claimAccess consciousness is defined as the property of having the required sort of internal access relations.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 2 facts
claimThe author defines "experience" as encompassing both minimal and complex contents of consciousness, including phenomenal, access, and extended forms of consciousness, regardless of whether they are realized in every stimulus situation.
claimUnresolved issues in Global Workspace Theory include the role of phenomenal contents in the workspace (Raffone and Barendregt, 2020) and whether 'access consciousness' involves access to actual contents or to mental constructs (Block, 2007; Kemmerer, 2015).
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com Dec 29, 2019 2 facts
claimThe author identifies their description of consciousness as 'access consciousness', where information gains causal influence by being accessible to various brain systems.
claimGlobal Workspace Theory (GWT) proponents generally reject the philosophical distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness, viewing phenomenal consciousness as the internal experience of access consciousness.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceRaffone and Pantani (2010) proposed a global workspace model for both phenomenal and access consciousness.
(PDF) On the function of consciousness - an adaptationist perspective academia.edu 1 fact
claimCognitive scientists often conflate P-consciousness (phenomenal consciousness) and A-consciousness (access consciousness), which leads to confusion in the field.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 1 fact
referenceThe 'intermediate level fallacy' manifests across different GOFAC landscapes: Functionalism (realizing functional structures) is associated with access consciousness; Information and computation (transmitting causal processes) is associated with integrated consciousness; Embodiment (objects) is associated with sensory-motor loops; and Enaction (interactions between objects and environment) is associated with knowledge of sensory-motor loops.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
referenceBlock N and Mac Donald C published 'Phenomenal and access consciousness' in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in 2008, pages 289-317.