O problema do transbordamento fenomenológico

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the positions in the debate regarding phenomenological overflow, i.e., is conscious experience richer than the functional mechanisms attributed to consciousness? To accomplish this, the positions of both defenders and critics will be presented, revolving around three main experiments: the partial-report paradigm proposed by George Sperling, the variation of this paradigm involving colors made by Zohar Bronfman and colleagues and the experiment with Kanizsa’s illusions carried out by Annelinde Vandenbroucke and colleagues. The results tend to show that the position in favor of non-overflow has more capacity to explain the phenomena.