The developmental gap in phenomenal experience: a comment on J. G. Taylor's "cortical activity and the explanatory gap".
Consciousness and cognition June 1, 1998 T C Dalton
A local neural network model for phenomenal experience explains the persistence, latency, and seamlessness of consciousness and its unity, but fails to account for nonlinear interactions between local and global neural systems. The model's assumptions that experience is immediate, intrinsic, and incorrigible limit understanding of how consciousness changes during neurobehavioral development. Recent evidence indicates development is discontinuous and that judgment arises under uncertainty, aligning feeling and perception with energy and behavior. A developmental approach may resolve the paradox of feeling both infinitely close to and distant from oneself.