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A Theory of Sentience

  • ISBN 9780198238515
  • Author: CLARK
  • Publ Date: 2000-04-01
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  • Binding: Hardback

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Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call 'sensory'. To sense something, one must have some capacity to discriminate among sensory qualities; but there are other requirements. What are they, and how can they be put together to yield full-blown sensing? Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls 'feature-placing'. Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-times. Such feature-placing is a primitive kind-probably the most primitive kind-of mental representation. Once its peculiarities have been described, many of the puzzles about the intentionality of sensation, and the phenomena that lead some to label it 'pseudo-intentional', can be resolved. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field, the location of after-images, the existence of sense-data, and the role of perceptual demonstratives.
A Theory of Sentience will interest anyone interested in the topics of sensation, representation, or phenomenal consciousness.
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