Abstract:Cases of two types ground much contemporary belief in unconscious perception. First, clinical cases in which perception appears preserved despite loss of consciousness. Second, paradigms in which a st...Cases of two types ground much contemporary belief in unconscious perception. First, clinical cases in which perception appears preserved despite loss of consciousness. Second, paradigms in which a stimulus continues to influence responding despite apparently being suppressed from conscious awareness. Seeing is a single fundamental natural kind, of which conscious and unconscious seeing are sub-kinds. This fact provides difficulties for some of the major theories of perception. Unconscious perception be both unconscious and perception, but there is a potential conflict between these desiderata. Ned Block's opening statement describes his favourite case of unconscious seeing: continuous flash suppression. Ned Block suggests a wider significance: unconscious perception threatens naive realism. Block's view rests on two contentions: that conscious and unconscious seeing are of the same fundamental kind, and that unconscious seeing must be a matter of perceptual representation. A. Phillips says unconscious perception of low-level features associated with gender might explain the result.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-05-08
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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