Steven Reidbord (1992) Would you Choose Unremembered Pain?
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Psycoloquy 3(41): Would you Choose Unremembered Pain?
WOULD YOU CHOOSE UNREMEMBERED PAIN?
Commentary on Bridgeman on Consciousness
Steven Reidbord
Department of Psychiatry
Box CSN-0984 UCSF
San Francisco CA 94143
reidbord@macpsy.ucsf.edu
Abstract
Bridgeman appears to equate epistemology with ontology,
but these are different issues. While memory recall may be needed
to know or PROVE conscious experience, it does not COMPRISE
conscious experience. Conscious experience matters greatly even in
the absence of the memory needed to prove that it occurred. An
account of consciousness must not establish an epistemology so
stringent that ontology gets lost in the process.
Keywords
consciousness, language, plans, motivation, evolution,
motor system.
References
- Bridgeman, Bruce (1992) Qualia and Memory. Response to Laming on Bridgeman on Consciousness PSYCOLOQUY 3(24) consciousness.9