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What explains the "hard" problem of consciousness?

Cogn Neuropsychol February 18, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1729712 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics Philosophy of mind
Key points Proposes that consciousness is the brain's simplified model of its own attention, which dissolves the 'hard' problem by treating subjective experience as an information-processing construct.

Abstract

Graziano and colleagues (this volume) have proposed a new theory of consciousness, called Attention Schema Theory (AST), both in an attempt to dissolve the “hard” problem of consciousness and as a ...