A construct-first approach to consciousness science.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews November 1, 2023 Peter Fazekas, A. Cleeremans, Morten Overgaard
We propose a new approach to consciousness science that instead of comparing complex theoretical positions deconstructs existing theories, takes their central assumptions while disregarding their auxiliary hypotheses, and focuses its investigations on the main constructs that these central assumptions rely on (like global workspace, recurrent processing, metarepresentation). Studying how these...