?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Cognitive+Architecture%2C+Concepts%2C+and+Introspection%3A+An+Information-Theoretic+Solution+to+the+Problem+of+Phenomenal+Consciousness&rft.creator=Aydede%2C+Asoc+Prof+Murat&rft.creator=G%C3%BCzeldere%2C+Asoc+Prof+G%C3%BCven&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+essay+is+a+sustained+attempt+to+bring+new+light+to+some+of+the+perennial+problems+in+philosophy+of+mind+surrounding+phenomenal+consciousness+and+introspection+through+developing+an+account+of+sensory+and+phenomenal+concepts.++Building+on+the+information-theoretic+framework+of+Dretske+(1981)%2C+we+present+an+informational+psychosemantics+as+it+applies+to+what+we+call+sensory+concepts%2C+concepts+that+apply%2C+roughly%2C+to+so-called+secondary+qualities+of+objects.++We+show+that+these+concepts+have+a+special+informational+character+and+semantic+structure+that+closely+tie+them+to+the+brain+states+realizing+conscious+qualitative+experiences.++We+then+develop+an+account+of+introspection+which+exploits+this+special+nature+of+sensory+concepts.++The+result+is+a+new+class+of+concepts%2C+which%2C+following+recent+terminology%2C+we+call+phenomenal+concepts%3A+these+concepts+refer+to+phenomenal+experience+itself+and+are+the+vehicles+used+in+introspection.++On+our+account%2C+the+connection+between+sensory+and+phenomenal+concepts+is+very+tight%3A+it+consists+in+different+semantic+uses+of+the+same+cognitive+structures+underlying+the+sensory+concepts%2C+such+as+the+concept+of+red.++Contrary+to+widespread+opinion%2C+we+show+that+information+theory+contains+all+the+resources+to+satisfy+internalist+intuitions+about+phenomenal+consciousness%2C+while+not+offending+externalist+ones.++A+consequence+of+this+account+is+that+it+explains+and+predicts+the+so-called+conceivability+arguments+against+physicalism+on+the+basis+of+the+special+nature+of+sensory+and+phenomenal+concepts.++Thus+we+not+only+show+why+physicalism+is+not+threatened+by+such+arguments%2C+but+also+demonstrate+its+strength+in+virtue+of+its+ability+to+predict+and+explain+away+such+arguments+in+a+principled+way.++However%2C+we+take+the+main+contribution+of+this+work+to+be+what+it+provides+in+addition+to+a+response+to+those+conceivability+arguments%2C+namely%2C+a+substantive+account+of+the+interface+between+sensory+and+conceptual+systems+and+the+mechanisms+of+introspection+as+based+on+the+special+nature+of+the+information+flow+between+them.+&rft.contributor=Aydede%2C+Asoc+Prof+Murat&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3746%2F1%2Fintrospection.pdf&rft.identifier=++Aydede%2C+Asoc+Prof+Murat+and+G%C3%BCzeldere%2C+Asoc+Prof+G%C3%BCven++(2004)+Cognitive+Architecture%2C+Concepts%2C+and+Introspection%3A+An+Information-Theoretic+Solution+to+the+Problem+of+Phenomenal+Consciousness.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3746%2F