PHILOS 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ibm System P, Mental Property, Intentionality
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Chalmers speculates perhaps there may be a way to formulate a theory of physics that may explain its basic entities extrinsically and intrinsically. If there are no intrinsic properties of physical things, then the world is pure causal flux (pure flow of information) with no properties for the causation to relate. Ned block and consciousness (revisit driving scenario): suppose you are driving a familiar route from toronto to. Block calls them: phenomenal (p) consciousness- has experiential properties of sensations, feelings, and perceptions, access (a) consciousness. Normore asks if he could have been unconscious but a-conscious. He wasn"t sleeping or anything of the sort, but he was unconscious in some sense the sense that he was not phenomenally conscious of the road. The key move/model block makes regarding a-consciousness is that a piece of information is available for conscious control and can immediately be brought into the global work space and be operated on must be able to recall.
