Consciousness: some basic issues--A neurophilosophical perspective.
Consciousness and cognition June 1, 1999 J Smythies 29 citations
Consciousness is examined through introspection and brain lesion studies, including cortical blindness, agnosia, and blindsight, alongside recovery of sight after injury. Two perception theories—Direct Realism and the Representative Theory—are discussed, covering the body-image, phantom limbs, phenomenal space, the homunculus argument, topographic coding, and the stimulus versus visual field distinction. Two brain-mind theories—Identity Theory and Bohr-Heisenberg complementarity—are compared. Binocular rivalry from intermittent photic stimulation in one eye, used in animal unit recording experiments, is proposed as a method to investigate the binding problem.