Structuring mind: the nature of attention and how it shapes consciousness
Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. It is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. It is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. It thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. Watzl argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us.0On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective |
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Introduction: Structure in Mind 1
1 Attention Regained 1
2 The Nature of Attention, and How It Shapes Consciousness 3
3 Attention and Philosophy 4
4 Methods 7
5 Reading Guide 9
Part I What Is Attention?
1 Beyond Brain Mechanisms: Attention Is a Subject-Level Phenomenon 13
1 The Scientific “Discovery” of Attention 13
2 The Folk-Psychological Matrix 14
3 The Scientific Matrix 18
4 What Is Attention? 21
5 Identifying Reductionism 23
6 Is Attention like Memory? 25
7 Why Reductionism Is Probably False: an Empirical Argument 27
8 Is “Attention” Just a Label? 32
9 Attention Is a Subject-Level Phenomenon 33
2 Attending: Why Attention Is a Mental Activity 38
1 The Central Phenomenon of Attention 38
2 Varieties of Attention 39
3 The Puzzle of Perceptual Agency 41
4 The Puzzle Solved 44
5 Voluntarism and Agential Intentionalism 46
6 What Follows from Voluntarism? 48
7 Are Activities Subject-Caused Events? 50
3 Activities: Temporal Shape and Guiding Form 52
1 Two Characteristics of Activities 52
2 Attention Is an Activity I: Temporal Shape 54
3 Changes in Attending 61
4 Structured Processes 63
5 Attention Is an Activity II: Guiding Form 66
4 Priority Structures: How Attention Organizes the Mind 70
1 Priorities and Mental Structure 70
2 Why the Priority Structure View? 72
3 Priority Structures: the Basics 74
4 Priority Systems 79
5 Attending to Something 82
6 Ways of Attending 85
X CONTENTS
7 Occupants of Attention 87
8 Constitutive Priority Structures 90
5 The What and Why of Priority Structures: Interpretation and
Functional Role 92
1 Interpretation and Functional Role 92
2 How to Interpret Priority Structures 93
2.1 Priorities I: Reductionism or Primitivism? 93
2.2 Priorities II: Comparative or Absolute? 95
2.3 Psychological Parts: Propositional vs. Priority Partitioning 99
2.4 Priority Systems: Local or Global? 102
3 The Functional Role of Priority Structures 105
3.1 Information Pruning vs. Prioritizing 105
3.2 Prioritization and Behavioral Decoupling 108
3.3 Prioritization and Selection for Action HO
6 Psychological Salience: Passive Attention Guidance 114
1 The Passive Dynamics of Attention 114
2 Attention Guidance in the Posner Cuing Paradigm 115
3 Varieties of Passive Attention 117
4 Passive Attention Is Subject-Level Guided 119
5 Constraints on a Theory of Psychological Salience 122
6 The Imperatival Account I: the Basics 12b
7 The Imperatival Account II: Update Rules for Priority Structures 129
8 The Imperatival Account III: Salience Maps 131
9 Beyond Perception: How Passive Is Mind Wandering? 133
Appendix: Encapsulation and Motivational Penetrability 135
7 Executive Control: Active Attention Guidance 138
1 Active Attention: a Paradigmatic Mental Action 138
2 Deliberation, Judgment, and Choice 140
3 Goals, Plans, and Execution Strategies 142
4 Online Execution and Fine-Grained Attunement 146
5 Effortful Attention 148
6 Attention and Self-Control 149
Part II Attention and Consciousness
8 Beyond Appearances: The Phenomenal Contributions of Attention 155
1 The Phenomenal Contributions of Attention 155
2 Can the Phenomenal Contributions of Attention Be Deflated? 157
3 Deflating the Deflationary View 158
4 How Attention Affects Appearances 160
5 The Appearance View 162
6 The Appearance View and Intentionalism 163
7 Phenomenal Uniqueness and Attentional Appearances 165
8 Attention Is Not like a Camera Lens 166
9 Why Probably No Attentional Appearance View Is Correct 171
CONTENTS XI
ւօ The Replication Argument against the Appearance View 173
10.1 Replicability 174
10.2 Difference 177
10.3 Summary 180
Appendix: Did Husserl Make a Similar Argument? 181
9 Phenomenal Structure: Center and Periphery—Fringe, Field, and Margin 183
1 Intelligible Perspectives 183
2 Structured Building 184
3 Priority and Centrality 186
4 Phenomenal Structure or Modes of Consciousness? 189
5 Centrality Systems: Center, Field, and Fringe 192
6 Phenomenal Structure in Conscious Thought 195
7 Center, Thematic Field, and Margin 198
8 Centrality Systems: Local or Global? 202
9 Phenomenal Holism? 203
Appendix: Precursors 208
10 Phenomenal Salience: The Dynamics of Attention and the
Flowing Stream 211
1 From Attentional Flow to the Flow of Consciousness 211
2 Felt Motivational Impact 213
3 The Contingent Capture Argument 216
4 Phenomenally Encoded Imperatives 221
5 Phenomenal Salience and the Flowing Stream 222
11 Awareness of Attending: Agentive Awareness and Introspective
Knowledge 225
1 Outward Attention, Inward Awareness 225
2 Introspective Attention? 226
3 Agentive Awareness 229
4 Agentive Attention Awareness 232
5 A Pushmi-Pullyu Account of Agentive Attention Awareness 234
6 Introspective Knowledge of Attention 239
Appendix: Extramission. Does Attention Stretch the Surrounding Air? 240
12 Necessity and Sufficiency: The Inconclusive Empirical Case for a
One-Sided Dependency 243
1 Two Claims about the Relationship between Attention and Consciousness 243
2 The Many Sufficiency Claims 244
3 Against Focal Sufficiency 246
3.1 Blindsight 246
3.2 Masking , 247
4 The Many Necessity Claims 249
5 Empirical Data on Priority System Necessity 251
5.1 Inattentional Blindness 252
5.2 Counterevidence? 254
5.3 Hemi-neglect 254
6 Phenomenal Consciousness or Accessible Phenomenal Consciousness? 257
XU CONTENTS
13 The Perspectivity Picture: Why Attention Is Essential to Phenomenal
Consciousness 259
1 Consciousness: Passive Encounter or Engaged Perspective? 259
2 Metaphysically Neutral Essence Claims 261
3 The Perspectivity Picture 263
4 Attention and Phenomenal Unity 266
5 Attention and Phenomenal Perspectivity 270
6 Attention and Phenomenal Subjectivity 276
7 Against Subtraction 280
8 Summary and Conclusion 282
Appendix: Attention, Phenomenal Unity, and Split Brains 283
Bibliography 285
Index 311
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