Chapter 14 Template Tuning and Graded Consciousness

Whether visual perceptual consciousness is gradable or dichotomous has been the subject of fierce debate in recent years. If perceptual consciousness is gradable, perceivers may have less than full access to—and thus be less than fully phenomenally aware of—perceptual information that is represented...

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description Whether visual perceptual consciousness is gradable or dichotomous has been the subject of fierce debate in recent years. If perceptual consciousness is gradable, perceivers may have less than full access to—and thus be less than fully phenomenally aware of—perceptual information that is represented in working memory. This raises the question of in virtue of what a subject can be less than fully perceptually conscious. In this chapter, we provide an answer to this question, according to which inexact categorizations of visual input may result in a representation of the visual information in working memory that is less than fully available to the perceiver and which the perceiver therefore is less than fully phenomenally aware of. The latter proposal is a natural extension of a theory of perception we have proposed in previous works, viz., the template tuning theory (TTT). We argue that TTT is compatible with both gradable and dichotomous conceptions of perceptual consciousness but that the available empirical evidence favours a gradable conception of perceptual consciousness.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1217172025-03-12T19:51:59Z Chapter 14 Template Tuning and Graded Consciousness Brogaard, Berit Sørensen, Thomas Alrik attention; higher-order theories of consciousness; inattentional blindness; masking; mental qualities; neurophenomenal structuralism; phenomenal content; unconscious mental states Whether visual perceptual consciousness is gradable or dichotomous has been the subject of fierce debate in recent years. If perceptual consciousness is gradable, perceivers may have less than full access to—and thus be less than fully phenomenally aware of—perceptual information that is represented in working memory. This raises the question of in virtue of what a subject can be less than fully perceptually conscious. In this chapter, we provide an answer to this question, according to which inexact categorizations of visual input may result in a representation of the visual information in working memory that is less than fully available to the perceiver and which the perceiver therefore is less than fully phenomenally aware of. The latter proposal is a natural extension of a theory of perception we have proposed in previous works, viz., the template tuning theory (TTT). We argue that TTT is compatible with both gradable and dichotomous conceptions of perceptual consciousness but that the available empirical evidence favours a gradable conception of perceptual consciousness. 2023-11-17T08:30:36Z 2023-11-17T08:30:36Z 2023-11-16T09:27:15Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85153 9781032529790 9781032529745 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121717 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85153/1/9781003409526_10.4324_9781003409526-18.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85153/1/9781003409526_10.4324_9781003409526-18.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85153/1/9781003409526_10.4324_9781003409526-18.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/ 9781003409526- 18 10.4324/ 9781003409526- 18 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Conscious and Unconscious Mentality Aalborg Universitet Sino-Danish Center 8bb76953-b3c1-4e04-837f-2b13df219499 5f14aa86-1830-45e4-ac4f-bfed65ce56a1 9781032529790 9781032529745 Routledge 24 open access
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Chapter 14 Template Tuning and Graded Consciousness
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