DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25103014 ISSN: 0140-525X
Conscious vision and the perils of Cartesian materialism
Susan BlackmoreAbstract
The authors make common assumptions that I reject: that consciousness has functions distinct from those of the brain processes on which it depends, that there is a moment at which consciousness happens, and that consciousness itself can be measured. This leads to Cartesian materialism and asking such unanswerable questions as when and why consciousness evolved. An alternative view is proposed.