Donald Laming (1992) Some Commonsense About Consciousness
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Psycoloquy 3(23): Some Commonsense About Consciousness
SOME COMMONSENSE ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS
Commentary on Bridgeman on Consciousness
Donald Laming
University of Cambridge
Department of Experimental Psychology
Downing Street
Cambridge, England CB2 3EB
(0223)-333565
drjl@uk.ac.cam.phx
Abstract
Consciousness has been the subject of much
misunderstanding. Bridgeman (1992) offers a strategic insight when
he declares (2.9) "It is meaningless to look for a box labelled
"consciousness" in a brain model, or to try to localize it in the
brain's anatomy. The operations that make us conscious occur in the
context of controlling behavior." Nevertheless, his analysis is
neither so simple nor so natural as it might be. This commentary
reassembles the elements of the target article in a more compelling
interrelationship.
Keywords
consciousness, language, plans, motivation, evolution,
motor system.
References
- Bridgeman, B. (1992). On the Evolution of Consciousness and Language. PSYCOLOQUY 3(15) consciousness.1
- Keidel, W.D. (1974) Information processing in the higher parts of the auditory pathway. In E. Zwicker & E. Terhardt (Eds.), Facts and Models in Hearing. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 216-26.
- Sommerhof, G. (1990) Life, Brain and Consciousness. Amsterdam: North-Holland.