The self-organizing consciousness.
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چکیده
We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 25 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002