Consciousness as a Layered Phenomenon: Integrating Phenomenal, Functional, and Social-Representational Accounts
Zhang Sulin preprint
This paper proposes a layered integrative model of consciousness that seeks to reconcile three widely discussed perspectives: (1) the phenomenal (first-person) reality of subjective experience; (2) the functional account that identifies consciousness with cognitive mechanisms such as information integration, self-modeling, and adaptive optimization; and (3) the social-representational...