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Consciousness: the last 50 years(and the next)
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posted on 2023-06-12, 07:32 authored by Anil SethAnil SethThe mind and brain sciences began with consciousness as a central concern. But for much of the 20th century, ideological and methodological concerns relegated its empirical study to the margins. Since the 1990s, studying consciousness has regained a legitimacy and momentum befitting its status as the primary feature of our mental lives. Nowadays, consciousness science encompasses a rich interdisciplinary mixture drawing together philosophical, theoretical, computational, experimental, and clinical perspectives, with neuroscience its central discipline. Researchers have learned a great deal about the neural mechanisms underlying global states of consciousness, distinctions between conscious and unconscious perception, and self-consciousness. Further progress will depend on specifying closer explanatory mappings between (first-person subjective) phenomenological descriptions and (third-person objective) descriptions of (embodied and embedded) neuronal mechanisms. Such progress will help reframe our understanding of our place in nature and accelerate clinical approaches to a wide range of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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Brain and Neuroscience AdvancesISSN
2398-2128Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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2Page range
1-6Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics Publications
- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Publications
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2018-12-05First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2018-12-04Usage metrics
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