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The self-organizing consciousness

Annie VinterPierre Perruchet

subject

ConsciousnessLogicPhysiologymedia_common.quotation_subjectDecision Making050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciencesBehavioral NeuroscienceCognition0302 clinical medicinePerceptionHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesAssociative propertymedia_commonCognitive scienceUnconscious PsychologySelf05 social sciencesAssociation LearningBrainLinguisticsAutomatismImplicit learningAssociative learningMemory Short-TermNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyMental representationNerve NetConsciousnessPsychologyPhenomenology (psychology)030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychology

description

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).

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x02000067