Experience and agency: Slipping the mesh

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (5-6):502-503 (2007)
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Can we really make sense of the idea (implied by Block's treatment) that there can be isolated islets of experience that are not even potentially available as fodder for a creature's conscious choices and decisions? The links between experience and the availability of information to guide conscious choice and inform reasoned action may be deeper than the considerations concerning (mere) reportability suggest

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Julian Kiverstein
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