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Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell$
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J. Kevin O'Regan

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199775224

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199775224.001.0001

The Sensorimotor Approach to Color

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(p. 127 ) Chapter 11 The Sensorimotor Approach to Color
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Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell
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J. Kevin O’Regan

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199775224.003.0065

The previous chapters have sketched a “sensorimotor” theory of feel in which consciously feeling something involves a self having conscious access to the fact that it is currently engaged in interacting with the environment in a way that obeys certain sensorimotor laws. The particular quality of a given feel is determined by the laws that characterize the sensorimotor interaction involved. This idea was illustrated in the previous chapter using the examples of sponge squishing and Porsche driving. This chapter shows how the approach can deal with what philosophers consider to be the prototypical feel, namely the feel of color.

Keywords:   feel, color, sensorimotor interaction, sensorimotor theory, self

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