Consciousness, Plasticity, and Connectomics: The Role of Intersubjectivity in Human Cognition

Consciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations. In contrast to this false dichotomy, we propose a new view of consciousness as an interactive, plastic phenomenon open to sociocultural influence. We ta...

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Main Authors: Micah eAllen, Gary eWilliams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00020/full