The MIT Press eBooks· 2020· Book chapter
Consciousness and Experience
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Short summary
A revised functionalist theory, 'hegemony of representation,' posits consciousness is solely explainable by intentionality, functional organization, and second-order mental state representation.
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Key points
- Proposes a 'hegemony of representation' theory of consciousness.
- Asserts consciousness is reducible to intentionality, functional organization, and second-order mental state representation.
- Addresses core issues in consciousness theory: subjectivity, qualia, and the felt aspect of experience.
- Builds upon and defends a functionalist framework against criticisms.
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Abstract
This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to deal with the many new issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years -- an extraordinarily fertile period for the philosophical investigation of consciousness.Lycan not only uses the numerous arguments against materialism, and functionalist theories of mind in particular, to gain a more detailed positive view of the structure of the mind, he also targets the set of really hard problems at the center of the theory of consciousness: subjectivity, qualia, and the felt aspect of experience. The key to his own enlarged and fairly argued position, which he calls the hegemony of representation, is that there is no more to mind or consciousness than can be accounted for in terms of intentionality, functional organization, and in particular, second-order representation of one's own mental states.A Bradford Book
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