ReviewIntegrative psychological & behavioral science2010
Neurodynamics of mind: the arrow illusion of conscious intentionality as downward causation.
Review in Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Social neuroscience: undoing the schism between neurology and psychiatry.Social neuroscience · 2018Review
- The compatibility between sociological and cognitive neuroscientific ideas on consciousness: is a neurosociology of consciousness possible?Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2013Article
- Theories and theorizers: a contextual approach to theories of cognition.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2011Article
- Does consciousness exist?--In what sense?Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2010Article
- The machine paradigm and alternative approaches in cognitive science.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2010Article
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Abstract
In cognitive neuroscience, the reissue of the notion of emergence and downward causation has been used as an interlevel model of mind-brain interactions from different perspectives. Within this perspective, intentionality has been interpreted as global to local determination (downward causation) on the neurophysiological level. Consciousness would act as the large-scale, global activity of the system that governs or constrains local interactions of neurons. This argument seems to solve several difficulties with regard to descriptions of consciousness on a neurophysiological and mental level. Nevertheless, the inconsistencies of this argument are shown, and a contextual and pragmatic explanation of the downward causation of consciousness is given.
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