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Consciousness without corticocentrism: Beating an evolutionary path

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

David B. Edelman
David B. Edelman
Affiliation:
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA 92121. david_edelman@nsi.edu
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Abstract

Merker's approach allows the formulation of an evolutionary view of consciousness that abandons a dependence on structural homology – in this case, the presence of a cerebral cortex – in favor of functional concordance. In contrast to Merker, though, I maintain that the emergence of complex, dynamic interactions, such as those which occur between thalamus and cortex, was central to the appearance of consciousness.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 91 - 92
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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