Homework 6, due in class 10/27

Please type your answers to this and future homework assignments.

1. Explain what we have been meaning in class by "conscious visual representation."

2. How, then, should we define "conscious tactile representation" so that it has an analogous meaning?

3. Explain in your own words what the "cutaneous rabbit illusion" is. (This will require some research, which is easily done on the internet. Cite your source.)

4. What does a "Stalinesque" interpretation of the cutaneous rabbit illusion say is going on? (You answer should make use of the concept of a "conscious tactile representation.")

5. What does an "Orwellian" interpretation of the cutaneous rabbit illusion say is going on?

6. Describe an experiment that, you think, would help decide which of these interpretations is correct.

7. What reasons would Dennett give for thinking that the outcome of the experiment you described was consistent with both interpretations?