3 papers in the library · 37 citations · publishing 2019-2024
Philosophical Psychology July 1, 2024 Sidney Carls-Diamante
ABSTRACT It is commonly assumed that where consciousness is present, it is a single stream. This notion is bolstered by functions attributed to consciousness, particularly providing multi-faceted experience of a perceptual scene and contributing to the production of coherent behavior, which supposedly require consciousness to be unitary. It is believed that were the unitary structure of...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2022 Sidney Carls-Diamante 28 citations
The cognitive capacities and behavioural repertoire of octopuses have led to speculation that these animals may possess consciousness. However, the nervous system of octopuses is radically different from those typically associated with conscious experience: rather than being centralised and profoundly integrated, the octopus nervous system is distributed into components with considerable...
Australian Journal of Psychology November 15, 2019 Glenn Carruthers, Sidney Carls-Diamante, Linus Ta-Lun Huang et al. 9 citations
ObjectiveTo review the way consciousness is operationalised in contemporary research, discuss strengths and weaknesses of current approaches and propose new measures.MethodWe first reviewed the literature pertaining to the phenomenal character of visual and self‐consciousness as well as awareness of visual stimuli. We also reviewed more problematic cases of dreams and animal consciousness,...