Original scientific paper

The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of Consciousness. Second Version

Uriah Kriegel ; University of Sydney, Department of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

Monitoring approaches to consciousness claim that a mental state is conscious when it is suitably monitored. Higher-order monitoring theory makes the monitoring state and the monitored state logically independent. Same-order monitoring theory claims a constitutive, non-contingent connection between the monitoring state and the monitored state. In this paper, I articulate different versions of the same-order monitoring theory and argue for its supremacy over the higher-order monitoring theory.

Keywords

consciousness; higher-order theories; same-order theories; self-representation

Hrčak ID:

23581

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23581

Publication date:

15.2.2008.

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