The Neuroscience of Consciousness

Compare research questions, measures and the limits of moving from observation to experience.

How to study this source

• What would explain conscious experience?

  backgroundExplanatory gaps and empirical research questions

  Compare research questions, measures and the limits of moving from observation to experience.

• Does the brain predict its world?

  backgroundNamed section and worked examples

  Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.

• How do we keep a thought in mind?

  backgroundNamed section and worked examples

  Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Towards a true neural stance on consciousness

  Victor Lamme. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

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

  Casali et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Quest for Consciousness

  Christof Koch. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Hidden Spring

  Mark Solms. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Conscious Mind

  David Chalmers. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.