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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Item type: Article ID code: 78012 Dates: DateEvent23 March 2022Published29 September 2021AcceptedSubjects: Education
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > PsychologyDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Oct 2021 09:03 Last modified: 04 Aug 2024 02:01 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78012