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framework:block-s-meat-hypothesisBlock's Meat Hypothesis
Claim that consciousness depends on subcomputational biological realisers, not just functional roles.
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Thinkers (2)
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- Ned BlockintroducesDistinguished phenomenal from access consciousness; cited for inner cinema metaphor
- Peter Godfrey Smithsupports
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- Role/Realiser DistinctionimplementsBlock's distinction between second-order functional roles and first-order physical realisers, used to formalise substrate constraints.
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