TY  - GEN
N1  - This article is a further development of material published in a former article "The Emergence Of Consciousness" published in Medical Hyptheses (2004)63(5),900-904.
ID  - cogprints3908
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3908/
A1  - Sieb, Richard/A.
TI  - Consciousness And Adaptive Behavior
Y1  - 2005/02//
N2  - Consciousness has resisted scientific explanation for centuries.  The main problem in explaining consciousness is its subjectivity.  Subjective systems may be adaptive.  Humans can produce voluntary new or novel intentional (adaptive) action and such action is always accompanied by consciousness.  Action normally arises from perception.   Perception must be rerepresented in order to produce new or novel adaptive action.  The  internal explicit states produced by a widespread nonlinear emergent mechanism from perception have all the same properties as consciousness.  Hence they may be identical to consciousness.  Consciousness is natural, material, and functional; utilized in the production of adaptive action.           
AV  - public
KW  - adaptive action
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  nonlinear emergence
KW  -  explicit
KW  -  positive feedback
KW  -  voluntary
KW  -  intentional
KW  -  subjective
ER  -

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