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Ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', '23: First Epistle of John' and 'Critique of Pure Reason'

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought

4086	Kant thought that consciousness depends on self-consciousness ('apperception') [Kant, by Crane]
	Full Idea: Kant thought that consciousness in general depends for its possibility on self-consciousness (or, as he called it, 'apperception').
	From: report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Tim Crane - Elements of Mind 3.21
	A reaction: What would Kant have made of Darwin? Consciousness looks very useful in small dim animals for registering survival information.

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

8130	Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge]
	Full Idea: Harman defended what came to be known as 'representationalism' - the view that qualitative aspects of experience are nothing other than representational aspects.
	From: report of Gilbert Harman (The Intrinsic Quality of Experience [1990]) by Tyler Burge - Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000 p.459
	A reaction: Functionalists like Harman have a fairly intractable problem with the qualities of experience, and this may be clutching at straws. What does 'represent' mean? How is the representation achieved? Why that particular quale?