Phenomenal Properties and the Intuition of Distinctness: The View from the Inside

This book investigates in unprecedented detail what David Papineau has called "the intuition of distinctness"—its seeming to us, when we attend introspectively to a phenomenal property of a current sensation, that this property couldn't literally be an electro-chemical property of neural activity in a certain tiny region of our brain. This book argues that the intuition of distinctness is no mere curiosity, since it plausibly underlies much of the widespread feeling both inside and outside ...