Modeling human experience?!

Journal/Book: Philos Psychol. 2000; 13: Rankine Rd, Basingstoke Rg24 8Pr, Hants, England. Carfax Publishing. 239-245.

Abstract: Borrett, Kelly and Kwan claim to provide neural-network models of important aspects of subjective human experience. To sidestep the long-standing and assumedly insurmountable problems with providing models of inner experience, they turn to a body-centered interpretation of experience, drawn from the work of Merleau-Ponty. This body-centered interpretation makes experience more tractable by linking it closely with bodily movement. However, when it comes to modeling, Borrett at al. Ignore this body-centered interpretation and revert back to the traditional view of inner experience as existing apart from the body. The result is uninteresting on two counts. The model that they present cannot be taken seriously as model of real inner experience. Additionally, these models do not apply to or extend the idea of a different, body-centered interpretation of experience either.

Note: Article Keijzer FA, Leiden Univ, Sec Expt & Theoret Psychol, Postbus 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden, NETHERLANDS

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