Bruce Bridgeman (1992) Consciousness and Memory:
. Psycoloquy: 3(33) Consciousness (15)
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Psycoloquy 3(33): Consciousness and Memory:
CONSCIOUSNESS AND MEMORY:
Reply to Rosenthal on Bridgeman on Consciousness
Bruce Bridgeman
Dept. of Psychology
Kerr Hall UCSC
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95064
(408) 459-4005
bruceb@cats.ucsc.edu
Abstract
Rosenthal makes assertions about what can and cannot
happen without being conscious. Although his distinctions are
informative, they do not substitute for data. We have little
precise information that differentiates the immediate feeling of
awareness, such as that possible for Korsakoff patients, from the
later episodic memory of conscious experience. Appeals to
introspection are useful starting points, but they are clearly are
not to be trusted in this context. Rosenthal also asks why
conscious thinking would be more efficacious than thinking that is
not conscious. The answer is that the whole armamentarium of
planning becomes available to conscious thought, together with
episodic memory and the linguistic mediation that goes along with
it.
Keywords
consciousness, language, plans, motivation, evolution,
motor system
References
- Bridgeman, Bruce (1992a) On the Evolution of Consciousness and Language. PSYCOLOQUY 3(15) consciousness.1
- Bridgeman, B. (1992b) Qualia and Memory: Response to Laming on Bridgeman on Consciousness. PSYCOLOQUY 3(24) consciousness.9
- Laming, D. (1992) Some Commonsense About Consciousness: Commentary on Bridgeman on Consciousness. PSYCOLOQUY 3(23) consciousness.8
- Rosenthal, D. (1992) Consciousness, Plans, and Language: Commentary on Bridgeman on Consciousness. PSYCOLOQUY 3(32) consciousness.14