Missing: Empirical theories of phenomenal consciousness.

A critique argues that Doerig et al. assessed how empirical theories address access consciousness but overlooked their treatment of phenomenal consciousness, likely because most theories do not address phenomenal consciousness. The sensorimotor theory is an exception, yet Doerig et al. failed to evaluate it as a theory of phenomenal consciousness.

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Abstract

Doerig et al. evaluate how current empirical theories approach access consciousness, but they neglect how they approach phenomenal consciousness - probably because most theories don't deal with phenomenal consciousness at all. One exception is the sensorimotor theory, but Doerig et al. did not evaluate it as being directed to phenomenal consciousness.