Consciousness and cognitive access

By Ned Block, Cynthia Macdonald. Neurosciences research, 2008

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/43542900554b8eba72faab5959d7feb3f8e0baf3

Citations in the corpus

• Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past (2013, unknown): “The adaptive advantages of shared planning, then, would have favored mental economies with greater access consciousness (Block, 2008), the wide availability of information and attitudes for a variety of mental operations, including inference, deliberation, planning, and voluntary action.”
• On the link between conscious function and general intelligence in humans and machines (2022, unknown): “According to Block, this includes information which is “available for use in reasoning and rationally guiding speech and action,” and as such, can be alternatively described as information which is available for cognitive access, without recourse to a discussion of qualia or phenomenology (Block, 20”
• The Conscious Id (2013, unknown): “One of the most popular definitions focuses on access—that is, the ability to report that you are conscious of something (Block, 2009).”