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M. Michel

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022

Papers

Confidence in consciousness research.

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science October 7, 2022 M. Michel

Confidence-based procedures, which use metacognitive indicators to determine whether subjects consciously perceive stimuli, are valid and accurate enough for practical and scientific purposes in consciousness research. This article reviews common objections to these procedures and concludes they are appropriate for assessing conscious perception.

How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically?

Journal of Consciousness Studies March 31, 2022 Jonathan C. P. Birch, D. Broom, Heather Browning et al.

A conscious being has a subjective point of view on the world and its own body, a concept easiest to grasp with vision, as Ernst Mach illustrated by drawing his own visual perspective. However, subjective experience encompasses far more than vision, including sounds, odors, tastes, and tactile sensations—a complete sensory world. The text argues that these sensory experiences constitute a full subjective point of view, extending beyond any single sense to shape a person's entire conscious experience of reality.