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The explanatory gap is still there

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Klaus Oberauer
Affiliation:
University of Potsdam, Allgemeine Psychologie I, 14415 Potsdam, Germanyko@rz.uni-potsdam.de http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/people/oberauer/index-d.html

Abstract

I argue that O'Regan & Noë's (O&N's) theory is in a no better position than any other theory to solve the “hard problem” of consciousness. Getting rid of the explanatory gap by exchanging sensorimotor contingencies for neural representations is an illusion.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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