PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THE DISCONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE

It is accepted that ''primary awareness'' may emerge from the integrat ion of two classes of information. It is unclear, however, why this ca nnot take place within the comparator rather than in conjunction with feedback to the perceptual systems. The model has plausibility in rela tion to the continuity of conscious experience in the normal waking st ate and may be extended to encompass certain aspects of the ''sense of self'' which are frequently disrupted in psychotic patients.