TY - JOUR
T1 - Consciousness is already solved
T2 - The continued debate is not about science
AU - Graziano, Michael S.A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2022/3/23
Y1 - 2022/3/23
N2 - A logical explanation of consciousness has been known for decades. The brain must construct a specific set of information about conscious feeling (theory-of-mind information), causing people to believe, think, and claim to have consciousness. Theories that propose an actual, intangible feeling are non-explanatory. They add a magical red herring while leaving unexplained the objective phenomena: the believing, thinking, and claiming.
AB - A logical explanation of consciousness has been known for decades. The brain must construct a specific set of information about conscious feeling (theory-of-mind information), causing people to believe, think, and claim to have consciousness. Theories that propose an actual, intangible feeling are non-explanatory. They add a magical red herring while leaving unexplained the objective phenomena: the believing, thinking, and claiming.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X21001837
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X21001837
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35319409
AN - SCOPUS:85126889674
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 45
SP - 30
EP - 31
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e50
ER -