Consciousness directs the actions of the agent for its own purposive gains. It re-organises a stimulus-response linear causality to deliver generative, creative agent action that evaluates the subsequent experience prospectively. This inversion of causality affords special properties of control that are not accounted for in integrated information theory (IIT), which is predicated on a linear,...
John E. Gedo&s;s developmental hierarchical model, which he and Goldberg originated and which he has continued to refine, offers clinicians and researchers alike remarkable assistance in organizing their thinking about the patterns and control mechanisms of mind–brain. R. W Sperry defines consciousness as "the highest level organizing principle of the mind". Damage to the executive control...