THE CONTENT OF COMPLEX VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXV, 2, 2020 (p. 85 – 94)en-US
dc.creatorMĂRĂŞOIU, Andrei Ionuţ
dc.date2020-08-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:39:05Z
dc.descriptionAccording to a widespread view about the content of conscious experience (Peacocke, 1992; Siegel, 2007), an experience has content when it is accurate relative to a possible scenario. Suppose you saw a ripe tomato. Your visual experience would have content if what you saw looked exactly like a ripe tomato, be it a genuine tomato or an expertly designed wax copy of a tomato. I argue that this view cannot account for the content of a hallucination whose content is impossible. A 95-year old patient seems to see small pumpkins and flowers coming out of her body (Rocha et al., 2012). Intuitively, the patient's hallucination has content. But the accuracy-conditions view has to classify the experience as devoid of content, because what the patient hallucinated is impossible – accurate to no possible scenario. On the concept of flower we possess, it is incoherent for flowers to erupt from under one's skin. This visual hallucination is a counterexample to the view that an experience is endowed with content only relative to its accuracy conditions.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2688
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2020.2.05
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1003
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2688/2587
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 65, No. 2, August 2020; 85 – 94en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2020.2
dc.subjectconscious visual experience; hallucination; content; accuracy conditions; Charles Bonnet Syndromeen-US
dc.titleTHE CONTENT OF COMPLEX VISUAL HALLUCINATIONSen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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