- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Colour Plates
- Chapter 1 Stances towards the problem of consciousness
- Chapter 2 The illusory narrative of consciousness
- Chapter 3 Where science and consciousness meet
- Chapter 4 Intentionality
- Chapter 5 Reality and illusion
- Chapter 6 Enter qualia
- Chapter 7 A survival value for consciousness?
- Chapter 8 Creeping up on the hard problem
- Chapter 9 Epiphenomenalism revisited
- Chapter 10 Scrutinising functionalism
- Chapter 11 From Cartesian theatre to global workspace
- Chapter 12 The global neuronal workspace
- Chapter 13 The neural correlate of consciousness
- Chapter 14 Bottom-up vs top-down processing
- Chapter 15 Egocentric space and the parietal lobes
- Chapter 16 Taking physics seriously
- Chapter 17 Consciousness of self: The point of view
- Chapter 18 The bodily senses
- Chapter 19 Responsibility
- Chapter 20 Overview
- References
- Index
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The illusory narrative of consciousness
The illusory narrative of consciousness
- Chapter:
- (p.7) Chapter 2 The illusory narrative of consciousness
- Source:
- Consciousness
- Author(s):
Jeffrey Gray
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The archetypal story of conscious experience is told like this: I perceived (consciously saw, heard, tasted, etc.) this out there, and so I then did (consciously formed the intention to do, and then did) that. This chapter unpicks this story in the following ways: (1) The conscious perceiving does not precede the doing; rather, it follows on after the doing, or at best goes on in parallel with it. (2) The ‘out there’ of conscious experience isn't really out there at all; it's inside the head. (3) The conscious ‘I’ is not the true subject of the story: it is the unconscious brain.
Keywords: consciousness, perception, illusions, vision, unconscious brain
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Colour Plates
- Chapter 1 Stances towards the problem of consciousness
- Chapter 2 The illusory narrative of consciousness
- Chapter 3 Where science and consciousness meet
- Chapter 4 Intentionality
- Chapter 5 Reality and illusion
- Chapter 6 Enter qualia
- Chapter 7 A survival value for consciousness?
- Chapter 8 Creeping up on the hard problem
- Chapter 9 Epiphenomenalism revisited
- Chapter 10 Scrutinising functionalism
- Chapter 11 From Cartesian theatre to global workspace
- Chapter 12 The global neuronal workspace
- Chapter 13 The neural correlate of consciousness
- Chapter 14 Bottom-up vs top-down processing
- Chapter 15 Egocentric space and the parietal lobes
- Chapter 16 Taking physics seriously
- Chapter 17 Consciousness of self: The point of view
- Chapter 18 The bodily senses
- Chapter 19 Responsibility
- Chapter 20 Overview
- References
- Index
- [UNTITLED]