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portada A Theory of Sentience
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2000
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0198238517
ISBN13
9780198238515
Edition No.
1
Categories

A Theory of Sentience

Austen Clark (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

A Theory of Sentience - Austen Clark

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Synopsis "A Theory of Sentience "

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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