Open Peer Commentary O'Brien & Opie: Connectionism and phenomenal experience
What unifies experiences generated by different parts of my brain?
Eric Schwitzgebel a1 a1 Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0201
eschwitz@citrus.ucr.edu
Abstract
Neither of the explanations O'Brien & Opie offer to
account for “subject unity” succeeds. Subject unity cannot
arise from constructed personal narratives, because such narratives
presuppose a prior unity of experience. Subject unity also cannot
arise from projection of experiences to the same position in space,
as reflection on pregnant women and the spatially deluded
reveals.
