PHILOS 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: James Langley, Inverted Spectrum, Explanatory Gap
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Phenomenal consciousness and the explanatory gap in theories of mind. Phenomenal consciousness is the qualitative aspects of experiences, which is also the internal properties that every individual has when they undergo experiences 3. Zoe drayson has concluded three qualities of phenomenal consciousness: subjective aspect, privacy and special access. The subjective aspect is about the first-person nature of. Consciousness, which there is something it is like to be a conscious subject and that what it is like feelings are always taking place in individual bases and modified by personal bias. Privacy is the quality that consciousness only belongs to the thinking subject itself, and there is no way for others to access that private experience. Special access, on the other hand, is that consciousness is always accessed by individual subjects in a special way, which they do not need evidence to decide what they are experiencing, instead they just directly aware 6.
