Peter D Kitchener

What Neuroscientists Think, and Don't Think, About Consciousness.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience February 24, 2022 Peter D Kitchener, Colin G. Hales

The approach the majority of neuroscientists take to the question of how consciousness is generated, it is probably fair to say, is to ignore it. Although there are active research programs looking at correlates of consciousness, and explorations of informational properties of what might be relevant neural ensembles, the tacitly implied mechanism of consciousness in these approaches is that it...