Consciousness and its function

Rosenthal, David (2007) Consciousness and its function. In: 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 22-25 June 2007, Las Vegas, USA.

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Abstract

The higher-order states in virtue of which intentional states are conscious have no essential tie to rational thinking, intentional action, executive function, or the correcting of multistep chains of reasoning. But we can - independently of any such functionality and of evolutionary selection pressures - explain why those higher-order states do very often occur.

Item Type:	ASSC Conference Item (Talk)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	HOT, consciousness, functionality, intentionality, evolutionary pressure
Disciplines:	Philosophy
Topics:	Theory of Consciousness
Article Type:	Theoretical
ID Code:	293
Deposited By:	ASSC Eprints chair
Deposited On:	08 July 2007

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