Consciousness: I have suggested that people's intuitions about whether a particular entity is conscious depend in an essential way on whether the entity has the right sort of body.
Just as the sense of our visual conscious experience depends on our implicit mastery of sensorimotor contingencies a set of rules concerning how sensory stimulation varies as a function of movement conscious visual experience is a temporary pattern of skillful activity.
Conscious perception depends not only on sensory input, but also on attention [1, 2].
According to this model, conscious events depend on coactivation of local processors, e.g. modality-specific regions of visual or auditory cortex, and neurons in a global neuronal workspace.
What is perhaps surprising, however, is the degree to which even our current conscious knowledge typically depends on memory.
Some researchers distinguish between conscious recollection, which depends on the hippocampus, and familiarity, which depends on portions of the medial temporal cortex.
Although it is widely accepted that the medial temporal lobes (MTLs) are critical for becoming aware that something happened in the past, there is virtually no evidence whether MTL sensitivity to event oldness also depends on conscious awareness.
We therefore conducted an additional behavioral experiment to determine to what extent our predictability effect depends on conscious apparent motion perception.
Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
The Descriptive question thus requires some account of the self-perspectival aspect of experience and the self-like organization of conscious minds on which it depends, even if the relevant account treats the self in a relatively deflationary and virtual way (Dennett 1991, 1992).
