Managing Editor: Kevin B. Korb
Managing Editor: Winand Dittrich
From the abstract of Bernie Baars' article on Constrastive Analysis:
This paper maintains that the position of behavioristic denial is far too restrictive, but that the Bat Criterion is far too demanding --- that in fact, we only need to specify comparable pairs of psychological phenomena that differ only in the fact that one member of any pair is conscious, while the other is not. This "method of contrastive analysis" is a generalization of the experimental method, with consciousness as a variable whose interaction with other psychological and biological phenomena can be assessed in standard ways.Article by Bernard Baars; with six invited commentaries and reply by author.This paper describes five sets of well-established pairs of phenomena that meet these criteria. Others are presented elsewhere, with more of a theoretical interpretation (Baars, 1983, 1988, 1993). Here I simply want to show that any adequate theory of conscious experience must satisfy these demanding but achievable empirical constraints.
Managing Editor: Kevin B. Korb
