Consciousness in General
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology 2019 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8217-5.ch002 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that because consciousness studies have become a broad and open question with many research papers, it is worthwhile to examine the current direction and rationale of these studies in order to identify a next direction and the necessity and reason for further research. |
Abstract
Consciousness studies have nowadays become a general and an open question in the research areas. As the result of this situation, there are many research papers on this topic. Under this situation, it is worthwhile considering a present direction and a reason of those studies in order to find out a next direction and the reason for the further research. Then, from those the direction and the reason, try to find out a necessity and a reason for the further research step. This chapter presents consciousness in general in a sense of functional mechanisms both at the past and at the present.