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Why babies are more conscious than we are

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Alison Gopnik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. gopnik@berkeley.eduihd.berkeley.edu/gopnik.htm

Abstract

Block argues for a method and a substantive thesis – that consciousness overflows accessibility. The method can help answer the question of what it is like to be a baby. Substantively, infant consciousness may be accessible in some ways but not others. But development itself can also add important methodological tools and substantive insights to the study of consciousness.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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