Consciousness in Solitude: Is Social Interaction Really a Necessary Condition?
Frontiers in Psychology February 16, 2021 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.630922 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
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| Key points | Argues that the Self-Organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) unifies many views of consciousness and offers a coherent picture of how a brain-like system can have conscious experience, and notes that Attention Schema Theory (AST) also accounts for conscious experience and for a system's belief that it has conscious experience by combining different theories. |
Abstract
(2020a) presented their Self-Organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) of consciousness. The theory unifies many other views and aptly paints a coherent picture of how a system like the human brain, can experience consciousness. In addition to SOMA, however, Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness (AST) also provides an account of both conscious experience and how a system comes to believe it has conscious experience, by combining different theories (Graziano, 2016, 2019).
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