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Title: | Theories of Consciousness as Reflexivity | Contributor(s): | Peters, Frederic (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1111/phil.12018 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13771 | Abstract: | Consciousness is best understood in context, as one element of an interactive waking state in which the greater part of cognitive processing takes place in a nonconscious fashion. But if conscious and nonconscious processing are combined in the waking state, what distinguishes the former from the latter, what is consciousness, and what is its purpose? The answer to the second question depends crucially on our conclusion regarding the first. What is the property in virtue of which a state is conscious rather than nonconscious? In the following, it will be argued that of the answers most frequently proposed - intentionality, subjectivity, accessibility, reflexivity - only the final characteristic, reflexive, autonoetic awareness, is unique to the conscious state. Reflexivity can best be explained not as the product of a self-representational (SR) data structure, but as the expression of a recursive processing regime, in which cognition registers the properties of the processing state to a greater extent than properties of the content represented. And the principal characteristic of a reflexive processing state is cognitive reflexivity or autonoetic awareness. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Philosophical Forum, 44(4), p. 341-372 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1467-9191 0031-806X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520401 Cognition | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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