A Dynamic Affective Core to bind the Contents, Context, and Value of Conscious Experience
bioRxiv May 21, 2021 K. Kishida, L. P. Sands preprint
The private and dynamic nature of conscious subjective experience poses an empirical challenge that has led neuroscience-based theories about consciousness to note the importance of ‘the hard problem’ of explaining how subjective phenomenal experience can arise from neural activity but set it aside and focus on the ‘easier’ problems associated with information representation and behavior. This...