In the first talk I discuss recent experiments designed to elucidate the neural correlates of consciousness. Implicit in this discussion are operational definitions of what I mean by consciousness. In the second talk I explore the extent to which we are conscious of being in control of our actions, our sense of agency. I raise the question of why we need to be aware of actions at all since we can achieve so much without such awareness. In the final talk I propose that consciousness has a critical role in social interactions. Consciousness of action allows us to assign responsibility and develop culturally acceptable justifications for action. Furthermore, consciousness enables us to share our experiences in a manner that is optimal for group decisions.
Friston, Karl J., Thomas Parr, Conor Heins, Axel Constant, Daniel Friedman, Takuya Isomura, Chris Fields, Tim Verbelen, Maxwell Ramstead, John Clippinger & Christopher D. Frith
2024. Federated inference and belief sharing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 156 ► pp. 105500 ff.
Niemeck, Maik
2023. Revisiting the Argument for Non-Conceptual Self-Consciousness Based on the Meaning of “I”. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14:4 ► pp. 1505 ff.
Francken, Jolien C, Lola Beerendonk, Dylan Molenaar, Johannes J Fahrenfort, Julian D Kiverstein, Anil K Seth & Simon van Gaal
2022. An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2022:1
Marchetti, Giorgio
2022. The why of the phenomenal aspect of consciousness: Its main functions and the mechanisms underpinning it. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Morsella, Ezequiel, Anthony G. Velasquez, Jessica K. Yankulova, Yanming Li, Christina Y. Wong & Dennis Lambert
2020. Motor Cognition: The Role of Sentience in Perception and Action. Kinesiology Review 9:3 ► pp. 261 ff.
ELLIS, NICK C.
2019. Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition. The Modern Language Journal 103:S1 ► pp. 39 ff.
Glass, Arnold L.
2019. Within the framework of the dual-system model, voluntary action is central to cognition. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 81:7 ► pp. 2192 ff.
Travers, Eoin, Chris D Frith & Nicholas Shea
2018. Learning rapidly about the relevance of visual cues requires conscious awareness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 71:8 ► pp. 1698 ff.
Friston, Karl J., Marco Lin, Christopher D. Frith, Giovanni Pezzulo, J. Allan Hobson & Sasha Ondobaka
2017. Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight. Neural Computation 29:10 ► pp. 2633 ff.
Oakley, David A. & Peter W. Halligan
2017. Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being. Frontiers in Psychology 8
Sánchez, Camilo
2017. ¿Cómo entender los fenómenos de pasividad? Una revisión crítica de la hipótesis de Frith. Ideas y Valores 66 ► pp. 157 ff.
2015. Human brain structure predicts individual differences in preconscious evaluation of facial dominance and trustworthiness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10:5 ► pp. 690 ff.
Hulstijn, Jan H., Richard F. Young, Lourdes Ortega, Martha Bigelow, Robert DeKeyser, Nick C. Ellis, James P. Lantolf, Alison Mackey & Steven Talmy
2014. BRIDGING THE GAP. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36:3 ► pp. 361 ff.
Frith, Chris D. & Uta Frith
2012. Mechanisms of Social Cognition. Annual Review of Psychology 63:1 ► pp. 287 ff.
Rosenthal, David
2012. Higher-order awareness, misrepresentation and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367:1594 ► pp. 1424 ff.
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2016. References. Language Learning 66:S1 ► pp. 313 ff.
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