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(1)Connexions. An online journal of cognitive science ISSN 1368-3233 EDITORS: GAVIN BOYCE, TOM DICKINS, KEITH FRANKISH, AND ADAM HUFFMAN. Issue 3 January 1998. Contents Articles Extract from a forthcoming paper ‘Twisted Tales’. Andy Clark. 2. Comments on Clark’s paper. Jill Boucher. 3. Comments on Clark’s paper. Seth Bullock. 7. Ralph D. Ellis, Questioning Consciousness. Gavin Boyce. 10. Horst Hendriks-Jansen, Catching Ourselves in the Act. Jill Boucher. 13. Rocco J. Genarro, Consciousness and Self-Consciousness. Peter Carruthers. 18. Richard Byrne’s paper at the BPS London Conference. T. E. Dickins. 21. Paul Bloom’s Hang Seng paper. Adam Morton. 23. Reviews. Sponsored by the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies Copyright © 1998 Jill Boucher, Gavin Boyce, Seth Bullock, Peter Carruthers, Andy Clark, T. E. Dickins, Adam Morton.

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