Review: Écrits posthumes
Abstract
410 Book Reviews establishing the âneural correlates of consciousnessâ, and I expect that the materiality of consciousness will come to seem ever less exceptionable. But will this solve the problem of consciousness? Ultimately, on Fossâs account, the solution must lie in a link between the SM and some conceptual model of that part of the MM which explicitly involves states of consciousness (that is, folk psychology). There can be no direct link between the SM and the MM, since the MM is not available to thought save through the lens, as it were, of some conceptual model. I am worried that the links between the SM and folk psychology will not and cannot reveal why some states are conscious while others, equally full of information and inï¬uence on behaviour, are not (for example, Foss does not discuss how to explain why blindsight visual information is not conscious). Foss does have interesting discussions of why qualia and intentionality do not possess any intrinsic features, which may go some way towards addressing this worry, though they are not couched in exactly these terms and are not uncontroversial. Perhaps I am merely the victim of lingering, misguided metaphysical urges, but I