Consciousness generates agent action

Delafield-Butt, Jonathan and Trevarthen, Colwyn (2022) Consciousness generates agent action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45. e44. ISSN 1469-1825 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2100203X)

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Abstract

Consciousness directs the actions of the agent for its own purposive gains. It re-organises a stimulus-response linear causality to deliver generative, creative agent action that evaluates the subsequent experience prospectively. This inversion of causality affords special properties of control that are not accounted for in integrated information theory (IIT), which is predicated on a linear, deterministic cause-effect model. IIT remains an incomplete, abstract, and disembodied theory without explanation of the psychobiology of consciousness that serves the vital agency the organism.

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Delafield-Butt, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8881-8821

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	78012
  Dates:	Date Event 23 March 2022 Published 29 September 2021 Accepted
  Subjects:	Education Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Strategic Research Themes > Health and Wellbeing
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	05 Oct 2021 09:03
  Last modified:	18 Dec 2024 01:31
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78012