Seth, Anil (2018) Consciousness: the last 50 years(and the next). Brain and neuroscience advances, 2. pp. 1-6. ISSN 2398-2128
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Abstract
The 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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics |
Research Centres and Groups: | Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF0309 Consciousness. Cognition Including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence, thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, mental fatigue > BF0311 Consciousness. Cognition |
Depositing User: | Marianne Cole |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2018 09:56 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2018 09:56 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/80520 |
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