ACAUSALITY AND THE MACHIAN MIND.
In this paper we propose a mechanism in the brain for supporting consciousness. We leave open the question of the origin of consciousness itself, although an acausal origin is suggested since it should mesh with the proposed quasi-acausal network dynamics. In particular, we propose simply that fixed...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 86 - 106 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2014
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