Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 5-6  

Open Peer Commentary

What is cognitively accessed?

Gilbert Harmana1

a1 Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1006. harman@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/

Abstract

Is Block's issue about accessing an experience or its object? Having certain “flow” experiences appears to be incompatible with accessing the experience itself. And any experience of an object accesses that object. Such access either counts as cognitive or does not. Either way, Block's issue seems resolvable without appeal to the scientific considerations he describes.

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