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(Nida-Rümelin, 2010)<ref>Martine Nida-Rümelin, ''What about the emergence of consciousness deserves puzzlement?'', 2010</ref> proposes the following definition.
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(Nida-Rümelin, 2010)<ref name="MNR">Martine Nida-Rümelin, ''What about the emergence of consciousness deserves puzzlement?'', 2010</ref> proposes the following definition.
  
 
;Definition: A property <math>P</math> is a phenomenal property if and only if having or not having that property at a given moment ''constitutes'' a difference in the phenomenology of the overall state of the subject concerned.
 
;Definition: A property <math>P</math> is a phenomenal property if and only if having or not having that property at a given moment ''constitutes'' a difference in the phenomenology of the overall state of the subject concerned.
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This definition is based on the assumption that "we have a quite clear intuitive grasp of what it is to constitute a difference for
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the phenomenology of the overall state a subject finds itself in at a given moment."<ref name="MNR"/>
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The instantiation of a phenomenal property so defined "partially characterizes what
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it is like for the subject to be in its (his or her) present state".<ref name="MNR"/>
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Revision as of 08:21, 31 August 2020

(Nida-Rümelin, 2010)[1] proposes the following definition.

Definition
A property is a phenomenal property if and only if having or not having that property at a given moment constitutes a difference in the phenomenology of the overall state of the subject concerned.

This definition is based on the assumption that "we have a quite clear intuitive grasp of what it is to constitute a difference for the phenomenology of the overall state a subject finds itself in at a given moment."[1] The instantiation of a phenomenal property so defined "partially characterizes what it is like for the subject to be in its (his or her) present state".[1]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Martine Nida-Rümelin, What about the emergence of consciousness deserves puzzlement?, 2010