What is it like to be conscious? Whereas nobody knows, by definition, what is it like to be unconscious, everybody knows what is it like to be conscious. Those of our mental states that are conscious have a distinctive phenomenal character, which we can experience and report. For example, there is something about seeing things that has its own distinctive character, which differs from hearing...
Abstract The mutual relationships of action to consciousness are complex and far from unequivocal. We execute many of our daily actions unconsciously; conversely, we can consciously simulate or imagine actions we do not execute. This vast domain of research, motor cognition, is central to the study, not only of action itself (how it is planned, prepared, and finally executed), but also of how...