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Consciousness as generative entanglement
Recent work in cognitive and computational neuroscience depicts the human brain as a complex, multi-layer prediction engine. This family of models has had great success in accounting for a wide variety of phenomena involving perception, action, and attention. But despite their clear promise as accounts of the neurocomputational origins of perceptual experience, they have not yet been leveraged so as to shed light on the so-called “hard problem” of consciousness—the problem of explaining why and how the world is subjectively experienced at all, and why those experiences seem just the way they do. To address this issue, I motivate and defend a picture of conscious experience as flowing from “generative entanglements” that mix predictions about the world, the body, and (crucially) our own reactive dispositions.
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Journal of PhilosophyISSN
1939-8549Publisher
Journal of PhilosophyExternal DOI
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12Volume
116Page range
645-662Department affiliated with
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- Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Research Group Publications
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2019-07-02First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-03-11First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-07-01Usage metrics
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