THE PLACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPROACH - THE MENTAL-POOL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT - COMMENTARY

Authors
RAKOVER SS
Citation
Ss. Rakover, THE PLACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPROACH - THE MENTAL-POOL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT - COMMENTARY, Behavioral and brain sciences, 19(3), 1996, pp. 537
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
19
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1996)19:3<537:TPOCIT>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Velmans (1991a; 1991b) proposed that consciousness plays a minor expla natory role in the information processing approach and that unconsciou s mechanisms process stimuli and responses and intervene between them. In contrast, the present commentary describes a thought experiment su ggesting that, although input information is initially processed uncon sciously, subsequent processing involves consciousness, and consciousn ess plays an important role in the explanation of behavior.