Mentalism, information and consciousness

Richard A. Carlson

doi:10.1017/s0140525x02250062

Mentalism, information and consciousness

Richard A. Carlson

Psychology

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The target article addresses important empirical issues, but adopts a nonanalytic stance toward consciousness and presents the mentalistic view as a very radical position that rules out informational description of anything other than conscious mental states. A better mentalistic strategy is to show how the structure of some informational states is both constitutive of consciousness and necessary for psychological functions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	333
Number of pages	1
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	25
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x02250062
State	Published - Jun 2002

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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