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    "title": "Manipulating the Contents of Consciousness\nA Mechanistic-Manipulationist Perspective on Content-NCC Research",
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    "abstract": "I argue for a manipulationist-mechanistic\nframework for content-NCC research in the case of visual\nconsciousness (Bechtel 2008; Neisser 2012). Reference to\nmechanisms is common in the NCC research. Furthermore,\nrecent developments in non-invasive brain stimulation\ntechniques (NIBS) lend support to a manipulationist\nstandpoint. The crucial question is to understand what is\nchanged after manipulation of a brain mechanism. In the\nsecond part of the paper I review the literature on\nintentionalism, and argue that intervention on the neural\nmechanism is likely to change the intentional content of\nconsciousness. This urges us to shift from content-NCC to\nwhat I call “intentional mechanisms”. Such mechanisms, it\nis argued, should be understood as neural prerequisites of\nconscious visual experience.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Consciousness; Manipulationism; NCC; Visual\nExperience; Intentionalism; NIBS; Mechanisms; Explanation"
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    "section": "Papers",
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        {
            "first_name": "Alfredo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vernazzani",
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            "institution": "Institut für Philosophie",
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    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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