Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience: A novel hypothesis.
Cognitive Neuroscience 2011 Michael S A Graziano, Sabine Kastner
A common modern view of consciousness is that it is an emergent property of the brain, perhaps caused by neuronal complexity, and perhaps with no adaptive value. Exactly what emerges, how it emerges, and from what specific neuronal process, is in debate. One possible explanation of consciousness, proposed here, is that it is a construct of the social perceptual machinery. Humans have...