Tom Cochrane

Imagination, endogenous attention, and mental agency

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences April 21, 2023 Tom Cochrane 3 citations

Abstract This paper develops a mechanistic account of basic mental agency by identifying similarities between two of its major exemplars: endogenous attention and imagination. Five key similarities are identified: (i) that both capacities are driven by currently prioritised goals that are either person-level or apt to become person-level. (ii) that both deliver their outputs to the working...