?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Consciousness+as+Recursive%2C+Spatiotemporal+Self-Location&rft.creator=Peters%2C+Dr+Frederic&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=At+the+phenomenal+level%2C+consciousness+arises+in+a+consistently+coherent+fashion+as+a+singular%2C+unified+field+of+recursive+self-awareness+(subjectivity)+with+explicitly+orientational+characteristics%E2%80%94that+of+a+subject+located+both+spatially+and+temporally+in+an+egocentrically-extended+domain.+Understanding+these+twin+elements+of+consciousness+begins+with+the+recognition+that+ultimately+(and+most+primitively)%2C+cognitive+systems+serve+the+biological+self-regulatory+regime+in+which+they+subsist.+The+psychological+structures+supporting+self-located+subjectivity+involve+an+evolutionary+elaboration+of+the+two+basic+elements+necessary+for+extending+self-regulation+into+behavioral+interaction+with+the+environment%3A+an+orientative+reference+frame+which+consistently+structures+ongoing+interaction+in+terms+of+controllable+spatiotemporal+parameters%2C+and+processing+architecture+that+relates+behavior+to+homeostatic+needs+via+feedback.+Over+time%2C+constant+evolutionary+pressures+for+energy+efficiency+have+encouraged+the+emergence+of+anticipative+feedforward+processing+mechanisms%2C+and+the+elaboration%2C+at+the+apex+of+the+sensorimotor+processing+hierarchy%2C+of+self-activating%2C+highly+attenuated+recursively-feedforward+circuitry+processing+the+basic+orientational+schema+independent+of+external+action+output.+As+the+primary+reference+frame+of+active+waking+cognition%2C+this+recursive+self-locational+schema+processing+generates+a+zone+of+subjective+self-awareness+in+terms+of+which+it+feels+like+something+to+be+oneself+here+and+now.+This+is+consciousness-as-subjectivity.+&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.date=2010&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6754%2F1%2FNature_Preceedings_Consciousness_as_Self-Location_Pdf.pdf&rft.identifier=++Peters%2C+Dr+Frederic++(2010)+Consciousness+as+Recursive%2C+Spatiotemporal+Self-Location.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6754%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>