Open Peer Commentary O'Brien & Opie: Connectionism and phenomenal experience
Trains, planes, and brains: Attention and consciousness
Max Coltheart a1 a1 Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia
bhs@mq.edu.au
Abstract
O'Brien & Opie believe that some mental
representations are evoked by stimuli to which a person is
attending, and other mental representations are evoked by
stimuli to which attention was not paid. I argue that this is
the classical view of consciousness; yet this is the view which
they wish to challenge.
