The qualia interpretation was what I had in mind when writing this, though of course Dehaene’s work is based on conscious access in the sense of information being reportable to others.
It is completely possible to have subjective experiences without thinking anything about them or remembering them. When a person asks “Am I consciousness?” and concludes that she was not consciousness until that question, it doesn’t mean she was a phylozombie the whole day.
Agreed, and the post was intended (in part) as an explanation of why this is the case.
It is interesting, is a person able to report something “unconsiousnessly”? For example, Tourette syndrome, when people unexpectedly say bad words. Or automatic writing, when, in extreme cases, a person doesn’t know what his left hand is writing about.
The qualia interpretation was what I had in mind when writing this, though of course Dehaene’s work is based on conscious access in the sense of information being reportable to others.
Agreed, and the post was intended (in part) as an explanation of why this is the case.
It is interesting, is a person able to report something “unconsiousnessly”? For example, Tourette syndrome, when people unexpectedly say bad words. Or automatic writing, when, in extreme cases, a person doesn’t know what his left hand is writing about.