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Consciousness and agency: Explaining what and explaining who

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Richard A. Carlson
Richard A. Carlson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 cvy@psu.edu gandalf.la.psu.edu/rich/
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Abstract

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The target article offers an intriguing hypothesis relating the content of phenomenal experience to a qualitative characteristic of information processing. This hypothesis, however, offers only an explanation of the “what” of consciousness, not the “who” – the experiencing agent remains mysterious. Their hypothesis about the unity of consciousness can be linked to an informational account of the agency or subjectivity of consciousness.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 148 - 149
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press