A connectionist theory of phenomenal experience.
The Behavioral and brain sciences February 1, 1999 G O'Brien, J Opie
When cognitive scientists apply computational theory to the problem of phenomenal consciousness, as many have been doing recently, there are two fundamentally distinct approaches available. Consciousness is to be explained either in terms of the nature of the representational vehicles the brain deploys or in terms of the computational processes defined over these vehicles. We call versions of...