What Needs to Emerge to Make You Conscious?
Perceptual experience can be explained by contextualized brain dynamics. An inner loop of ongoing activity within the brain produces dynamic patterns of synchronization and de- synchronization that are necessary, but not sufficient, for visual experience. This inner loop is controlled
by evolution, development, socialization, learning, task and perception- action contingencies, which constitute an outer loop. This outer loop is sufficient, but not necessary, for visual experience. Jointly, the inner and outer loop may offer sufficient and necessary conditions for the emergence
of visual experience. This hypothesis has methodological, empirical, theoretical, and philosophical implications.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: RIKEN BSI, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan., Email: [email protected]
Publication date: January 1, 2007
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