Trading automatic/nonautomatic for unconscious/conscious
Joseph Tzelgov
Behavioral and Brain Sciences June 1, 2002 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x02500066 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that the SOC framework implies automaticity of both the materialization of conscious experience and the application of primitives arising from consciousness, and that cognition refers to conscious experience. Proposes automatic/nonautomatic, rather than unconscious/conscious, as the basic contrast characterizing human cognition. |
Abstract
In this commentary I show that the SOC framework implies automaticity of both the materialization of phenomenological conscious experience and the application of the primitives resulting from the emergence of consciousness. In addition, SOC implies that cognition refers to conscious experience. Consequently, I propose automatic/nonautomatic instead of unconscious/conscious as the basic contrast characterizing human cognition.