Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Open Peer Commentary
Palmer: Color and consciousness

Consciousness – subject to agreement


Neil Law Malcolm a1
a1 Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9AL, United Kingdom malcolm@rowland.org www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

The claim that isomorphism in perceptual behaviour allows for differences in inner experience holds only if experience is taken to be an entity quite distinct from perceptual behaviour and only accidentally related to it. But this is not so. The two are internally related; experience as conceptualised being inherent to perception as a species of normative behaviour.