Neural correlates

Key question

What would explain conscious experience?

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Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Claims to examine

• A theory of consciousness must distinguish experience from the ability to report an experience.

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• What would explain conscious experience?

  Compare access, phenomenal experience and measurable neural correlates across competing theories.

Reading connections

• Consciousness: Here, There and Everywhere?

  Giulio Tononi · Christof Koch

• Towards a true neural stance on consciousness

  Victor Lamme

• A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior

  Casali et al.

• The Conscious Mind

  David Chalmers

• The Neuroscience of Consciousness

  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors