The necessary and sufficient mechanism of consciousness in a layered mind.
Zenan Ruan
Frontiers in Psychology September 28, 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1280959 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Theories of consciousness Iit Gazzaniga Gnwt |
| Key points | Argues that consciousness research has reached a critical point where many empirically supported theories of consciousness make diverging predictions, posing both promise and challenge for the field. |
Abstract
The study of consciousness is becoming one of several significant challenges at the frontiers of science, in contrast to its previously being off-limits. With the application of binocular rivalry, split brain, blindsight, and other paradigms by passionate pioneers in the last century (Seth, 2018), empirical theories of consciousness have emerged in neuroscience. Currently, the situation has reached a critical point of both hope and challenge in that a large number of theories of consciousness (ToCs), each with specific empirical support, have claimed their respective plausibilities, and their proposed conjectures have led to diverging predictions (Del Pin et al. , 2021;Seth et al.
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