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Bruce Mangan
Behavioral and Brain Sciences February 1, 1999 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x99351797 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that O'Brien and Opie's theory of consciousness demands a view of unconscious processing incompatible with virtually all current PDP models, that it is closer to an AI than a PDP perspective, and that its treatment of phenomenology is ad hoc. It nevertheless raises the question of whether network relaxation features could be the "switch" turning an unconscious network conscious. |
Abstract
O'Brien & Opie's (O&O's) theory demands a view of unconscious processing that is incompatible with virtually all current PDP models of neural activity. Relative to the alternatives, the theory is closer to an AI than a parallel distributed processing (PDP) perspective, and its treatment of phenomenology is ad hoc. It raises at least one important question: Could features of network relaxation be the “switch” that turns an unconscious into a conscious network?