{"pk":25796,"title":"Manipulating the Contents of Consciousness\nA Mechanistic-Manipulationist Perspective on Content-NCC Research","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Consciousness; Manipulationism; NCC; Visual\nExperience; Intentionalism; NIBS; Mechanisms; Explanation"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29p122m4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alfredo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vernazzani","name_suffix":"","institution":"Institut für Philosophie","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25796/galley/15420/download/"}]}