?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=WHERE+EXPERIENCES+ARE%3A+DUALIST%2C+PHYSICALIST%2C+ENACTIVE+AND+REFLEXIVE+ACCOUNTS+OF+PHENOMENAL+CONSCIOUSNESS+&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Prof+Max&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Dualists+believe+that+experiences+have+neither+location+nor+extension%2C+while+reductive+and+%E2%80%98non-reductive%E2%80%99+physicalists+(biological+naturalists)+believe+that+experiences+are+really+in+the+brain%2C+producing+an+apparent+impasse+in+current+theories+of+mind.+Enactive+and+reflexive+models+of+perception+try+to+resolve+this+impasse+with+a+form+of+%E2%80%9Cexternalism%E2%80%9D+that+challenges+the+assumption+that+experiences+must+either+be+nowhere+or+in+the+brain.+However%2C+they+are+externalist+in+very+different+ways.++Insofar+as+they+locate+experiences+anywhere%2C+enactive+models+locate+conscious+phenomenology+in+the+dynamic+interaction+of+organisms+with+the+external+world%2C+and+in+some+versions%2C+they+reduce+conscious+phenomenology+to+such+interactions%2C+in+the+hope+that+this+will+resolve+the+hard+problem+of+consciousness.++The+reflexive+model+accepts+that+experiences+of+the+world+result+from+dynamic+organism-environment+interactions%2C+but+argues+that+such+interactions+are+preconscious.++While+the+resulting+phenomenal+world+is+a+consequence+of+such+interactions%2C+it+cannot+be+reduced+to+them.++The+reflexive+model+is+externalist+in+its+claim+that+this+external+phenomenal+world%2C+which+we+normally+think+of+as+the+%E2%80%9Cphysical+world%2C%E2%80%9D+is+literally+outside+the+brain.++Furthermore%2C+there+are+no+added+conscious+experiences+of+the+external+world+inside+the+brain.++In+the+present+paper+I+present+the+case+for+the+enactive+and+reflexive+alternatives+to+more+classical+views+and+evaluate+their+consequences.++I+argue+that%2C+in+closing+the+gap+between+the+phenomenal+world+and+what+we+normally+think+of+as+the+physical+world%2C+the+reflexive+model+resolves+one+facet+of+the+hard+problem+of+consciousness.+++Conversely%2C+while+enactive+models+have+useful+things+to+say+about+percept+formation+and+representation%2C+they+fail+to+address+the+hard+problem+of+consciousness.++&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4891%2F1%2FEnactive_vs_Reflexive_web.mht&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4891%2F2%2FEnactive_vs_Reflexive_with_accepted_corrections.pdf&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Prof+Max++(2006)+WHERE+EXPERIENCES+ARE%3A+DUALIST%2C+PHYSICALIST%2C+ENACTIVE+AND+REFLEXIVE+ACCOUNTS+OF+PHENOMENAL+CONSCIOUSNESS.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4891%2F