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What, exactly, is explicitness?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Hugh Clapin
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W., 2006 Australiahugh.clapin@philosophy.usyd.edu.au www.arts.su.edu.au/Arts/departs/philos/clapin/index.html

Abstract

O'Brien & Opie's theory of consciousness relies heavily on a distinction between explicit activation vectors and inexplicit weight vectors. But determining which representations are explicit vehicles requires appeal to process, and so their vehicle theory is in fact a process theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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