Towards a sensorimotor approach to flavour and smell

Millar, Becky

doi:10.1111/mila.12275

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“…In the subjectivity realm, consciousness permits each individual to experience phenomena that transcend the five senses (Millar, 2021) (hear, see, taste, touch and smell). In other words, the subjectivity is not "prisoned" in the current space-time situation.…”

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Expanding the current tacit/explicit knowledge dichotomy encompassing situated and theoretical/normative knowledge: a phenomenological perspective

Silva

Silva²

2022

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PurposeThis article introduces a model of knowledge creation in consciousness, the creation of explicit knowledge in six forms and its register and organisation in documents.Design/methodology/approachAssuming the premise of three realms of reference to knowledge and two forms of reference to entities, this article, through a phenomenological perspective, deduces a model of the creation of knowledge in consciousness and the creation of explicit knowledge in six forms and its register in documents.FindingsTwo basic types of knowledge are introduced: situated knowledge and theoretical/normative knowledge. Considering three realms of reference of knowledge – the space–time realm, subjectivity realm and linguistic realm – six general types of knowledge are deduced. Finally, three layers of knowledge organisation are presented: classification and mapping documents, theoretical/normative documents and documents of situations.Practical implicationsThis article can contribute to the development of more efficient forms of creation of explicit knowledge, its register in documents and the development of more efficient knowledge organisation and management systems.Originality/valueRelying on established perspectives of the realms where subjectivity is immersed, this article discusses how knowledge is created in consciousness and registered in documents. It also presents a novel perspective of types of knowledge through the combination of dimensions, realms of reference and forms of reference to entities.

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Section: Subjectivity Realmmentioning

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Expanding the current tacit/explicit knowledge dichotomy encompassing situated and theoretical/normative knowledge: a phenomenological perspective

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2022

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“…However, vision-based studies became the predominant research paradigm of conscious perception in the past century (but see Arzi et al. 2020 for a recent experimental approach; see Barwitch 2020 ; Millar 2021 on recent theoretical accounts of olfactory perception).…”

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Back to square one: the bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life

Ciaunica

Safron

Delafield‐Butt

2021

Neuroscience of Consciousness

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Most theoretical and empirical discussions about the nature of consciousness are typically couched in a way that endorses a tacit adult-centric and vision-based perspective. This paper defends the idea that consciousness science may be put on a fruitful track for its next phase by examining the nature of subjective experiences through a bottom-up developmental lens. We draw attention to the intrinsic link between consciousness, experiences and experiencing subjects, which are first and foremost embodied and situated organisms essentially concerned with self-preservation within a precarious environment. Our paper suggests that in order to understand what consciousness ‘is’, one should first tackle the fundamental question: how do embodied experiences ‘arise’ from square one? We then highlight one key yet overlooked aspect of human consciousness studies, namely that the earliest and closest environment of an embodied experiencing subject is the body of another human experiencing subject. We present evidence speaking in favour of fairly sophisticated forms of early sensorimotor integration of bodily signals and self-generated actions already being established in utero. We conclude that these primitive and fundamentally relational and co-embodied roots of our early experiences may have a crucial impact on the way human beings consciously experience the self, body and the world across their lifespan.

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“…See e.g O'Regan (2011). for initial treatments of the sensorimotor contingencies of particular experience types;Broackes (2007) andDegenaar & Myin (2014) for SR-friendly accounts of colour perception;Auvray et al (2010) for pain experiences; andNoë (2006) andMillar (2021) for non-visual modalities.10 Thanks to Alistair Isaac, Mike Wheeler, and audiences in Antwerp, Edinburgh and Santiago for comments on ancestral versions of this material. Special thanks to two referees for this journal, whose thoughtful comments led to a much-improved paper.Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqac016/6590398 by guest on 07 June 2022…”

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Sensorimotor Relationalism and Conscious Vision

Ward

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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I argue that the phenomenal properties of conscious visual experiences are properties of the mind-independent objects to which the subject is perceptually related, mediated by the subject's practical understanding of their sensorimotor relation to those properties. This position conjoins two existing strategies for explaining the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences: accounts appealing to perceivers’ limited, non-inferential access to the details of their sensory relation to the environment, and the relationalist conception of phenomenal properties. Bringing these two positions together by emphasizing their sensorimotor common ground allows each one to respond to damaging objections using the resources of the other. The resulting ‘sensorimotor relationalism’ about conscious vision provides a promising schema for explaining phenomenal properties of perceptual states, replacing ‘Hard’ questions with tractable ones about the perceptual relation and its sensorimotor underpinnings.

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Towards a sensorimotor approach to flavour and smell

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Expanding the current tacit/explicit knowledge dichotomy encompassing situated and theoretical/normative knowledge: a phenomenological perspective

Expanding the current tacit/explicit knowledge dichotomy encompassing situated and theoretical/normative knowledge: a phenomenological perspective

Back to square one: the bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life

Sensorimotor Relationalism and Conscious Vision

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