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The self-organizing consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Pierre Perruchet
Affiliation:
Université de Bourgogne, LEAD/CNRS, 21000 Dijon, Francepierre.perruchet@u-bourgogne.frannie.vinter@u-bourgogne.fr http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/LEAD/
Annie Vinter
Affiliation:
Université de Bourgogne, LEAD/CNRS, 21000 Dijon, Francepierre.perruchet@u-bourgogne.frannie.vinter@u-bourgogne.fr http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/LEAD/

Abstract

We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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