Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience

By Ned Block. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2007

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Human-centered Explainable AI: Towards a Reflective Sociotechnical Approach (2020, background): “The philosophical intuition behind rationale generation is that humans can engage in effective communication by verbalizing plausible motivations for their actions, even when the verbalized reasoning does not have a consciously-accessible neural correlate of the decision-making process [22,10,9].”
ATTENTION AND MENTAL PAINT (2010, background): “Phenomenological judgments are the highly fallible starting point ( Block , 2007a ) of any inquiry into consciousness .”
Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities (2009, background): “Furthermore, there is no clear consensus concerning the definition of consciousness, and other theoretical models may propose that a form of ‘‘phenomenal consciousness’’ (34), or of ‘‘unattended consciousness’’ (35, 36) still accompanies the early local effect.”
Temporal Experience and the Temporal Structure of Experience (2014, background): “This (at the very least) violates our standard working maxim that subjects have access to the content of their experiences, a maxim that it seems very implausible to violate in this case (I do not say there are no cases where conscious contents are to some degree inaccessible – see Block (2007)).”
How can we measure awareness? An overview of current methods (2015, background): “Furthermore, Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness (Block 2007, 2014) is also connected to this point (as well as to exhaustiveness issues in general), and forms the basis for the overflow argument: the idea that phenomenology is always richer than what we…”
Automated rationale generation: a technique for explainable AI and its effects on human perceptions (2019, background): “ng plausible motivations for their action. The communication can be effective even when the verbalized reasoning does not have a consciously accessible neural correlate of the decision-making process [9, 8,19]. Whereas an explanation can be in any communication modality, rationales are natural langu”
Error awareness and the error-related negativity: evaluating the first decade of evidence (2012, background): “(Koch and Tsuchiya, in Block, 2007, p. 509) An example for executive function in the context of error awareness research that is independent of (access) consciousness is rapid error correction (see above).”
Attention, Visual Consciousness and Indeterminacy (2011, background): “(Block, 2007, p.487) But why should we accept that the information of which these subjects were conscious outstrips the information they were able to report?”
Body schema and body image--pros and cons. (2010, neutral): “Itisnotbecauseyoucannotreport it that you are not aware of it (Block, 2007; Lamme, 2003; Simons & Rensink, 2005).”