Electronic Imaging
January 16, 2023
Glenn Hartelius, Lora T. Likova, Christopher W. Tyler
2 citations
This study is focused on the novel concept of the origin or seat of the attentional spotlight, the bodily location at which the attended information is felt to impinge. Existing research on the seat of attention, also described as self-location or egocenter, shows that it can be situated in various ways within the experienced body space (Hanley et al., 2020), and that differences in its...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Glenn Hartelius, Lora T. Likova, Christopher W. Tyler
This study provides evidence supporting the operation of a novel cognitive process of a somatic seat of attention, or ego-center, whose somatic location is under voluntary control and that provides access to differential emotional resources. Attention has typically been studied in terms of what it is directed toward, but it can also be associated with a localized representation in the body...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
October 31, 2021
Christopher W. Tyler
This paper considers three classes of analyses of the nature of consciousness: abstract theories of the functional organization of consciousness, and concrete proposals as to the neural substrate of consciousness, while providing a rationale for contesting non-neural and transcendental conceptualizations of consciousness. It indicates that abstract theories of the dynamic core of consciousness...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 24, 2020
Christopher W. Tyler
14 citations
This article develops a view of consciousness in the context of a new philosophical approach that invokes the concept of emergence, through which the operative principles of each level of organization of physical energy flow are functionally dissociated from those of the levels below it, despite the continuity of the physical laws that govern them. The particular form of emergence that is the...
Christopher W. Tyler
preprint
Many thinkers have provided analyses of the properties of consciousness, though not generally in the context of framing the putative properties in terms of their specific testability. To avoid the criticisms of untestability leveled against the 19th century phenomenologists, the goal of the present overview is to review influential views on the specific properties of consciousness in terms of...