Refuting the unfolding-argument on the irrelevance of causal structure to consciousness.
Consciousness and Cognition October 1, 2021 M. Usher
The unfolding argument (UA) was advanced as a refutation of prominent theories, which posit that phenomenal experience is determined by patterns of neural activation in a recurrent (neural) network (RN) structure. The argument is based on the statement that any input-output function of an RN can be approximated by an "equivalent" feedforward-network (FFN). According to UA, if consciousness...