The objects of consciousness: a non-computational model of cell assemblies


Roberts, J ORCID: 0000-0001-8246-8544 (2017) The objects of consciousness: a non-computational model of cell assemblies. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24 (1-2). pp. 228-253.

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The premise of this paper is that an adequate model of consciousness will be able to account for the fundamental duality in experience typified by thought and feeling, objectivity and subjectivity, science and art, and that it will do so without any of these terms assimilating its counterpart. The paper argues that such an account is possible using existing models of the cell assembly, but only if consciousness is conceived in structural rather than information processing terms. To this end, the paper contests the viability of information processing models that identify consciousness with a substrate-independent flow of information, and instead identifies consciousness with the physical structure of the cell assembly itself. This allows a fuller and more parsimonious account of consciousness than existing information processing models, as well as the integration of a range of key related matters from the fields of neuroanatomy, psychology, philosophy, and the physical sciences.

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Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2017 07:51
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