The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle

The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle

This article applies the free energy principle to the hard problem of consciousness. After clarifying some philosophical issues concerning functionalism, it identifies the elemental form of consciousness as affect and locates its physiological mechanism (an extended form of homeostasis) in the upper...

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Main Author:	Mark Solms
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:	Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:	hard problem consciousness free energy predictive processing affect Freud
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02714/full

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