@article {Shaw:2007:1355-8250:137, author = "Shaw, Robert and Kinsella-Shaw, J.", title = "The Survival Value of Informed Awareness", journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies", volume = "14", number = "1-2", year = "2007", abstract = "Various hypotheses about the importance of psycho-neural concomitants are reviewed and their implications discussed for the 'easy' and 'hard' problems of consciousness -- especially, as viewed by cognitive and ecological psychology. In Ecological Psychology, where the subjective-objective dichotomy is repudiated, these concepts are without foundation, and are replaced by informed awareness, which is argued to play an important, perhaps, indispensable role in goal- directed actions and thus to have survival value. The significance of informed awareness is illustrated in several real- world goal-directed tasks.", pages = "137-154", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2007/00000014/F0020001/art00009" }