Open Peer Commentary O'Brien & Opie: Connectionism and phenomenal experience
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Bruce Mangan a1 a1 Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3020
mangan@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Abstract
O'Brien & Opie's (O&O's) theory
demands a view of unconscious processing that is incompatible with
virtually all current PDP models of neural activity. Relative to the
alternatives, the theory is closer to an AI than a parallel
distributed processing (PDP) perspective, and its treatment
of phenomenology is ad hoc. It raises at least one important
question: Could features of network relaxation be the
“switch” that turns an unconscious into a
conscious network?
