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The slippery slopes of connectionist consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

John G. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King's College, London WC2R2LS, United Kingdom, and Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Juelich, D52425, Germany john.g.taylor@kcl.ac.uktaylor@medicom03.ime.kfa-juelich.de www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/research/staff/jg_taylor.html

Abstract

The basic postulate that consciousness arises from stable states of recurrent activity is shown to need considerable modification from our current knowledge of the neural networks of the brain. Some of these modifications are outlined.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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