TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience and consciousness
T2 - Concepts from the outside in
AU - Rainey, Stephen
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The ‘feel’ of driving a Porsche is unlike that of seeing red (O’Regan, J. Noë, A., 2000). Sensorimotor theory and enactivism hold that looking for mechanisms or something ‘inside the head’ is a mistake in accounting for this. Consciousness does not ‘lie behind’ experience and action, but rather that it is in experience and action. Studying the actions organisms undertake in environments can provide insight into their consciousness and experience. Taking such actions as the locus of study, moreover, can provide greater insight than can studies of mechanisms that drive such interactions. Studying organism-environment interaction in fact provides insight into mechanisms.
AB - The ‘feel’ of driving a Porsche is unlike that of seeing red (O’Regan, J. Noë, A., 2000). Sensorimotor theory and enactivism hold that looking for mechanisms or something ‘inside the head’ is a mistake in accounting for this. Consciousness does not ‘lie behind’ experience and action, but rather that it is in experience and action. Studying the actions organisms undertake in environments can provide insight into their consciousness and experience. Taking such actions as the locus of study, moreover, can provide greater insight than can studies of mechanisms that drive such interactions. Studying organism-environment interaction in fact provides insight into mechanisms.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05107-9_6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039155598
SN - 2192-6255
VL - 15
SP - 83
EP - 103
JO - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
JF - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
ER -