?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Engine+of+Awareness%3A+Autonomous+Synchronous+Representations&rft.creator=McKee%2C+George&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Physiological+Psychology&rft.description=Objections+to+functional+explanations+of+awareness+assert+that+although+functional+systems+may+be+adequate+to+explain+behavior%2C+including+verbal+behavior+consisting+of+assertions+of+awareness+by+an+individual%2C+they+cannot+provide+for+the+existence+of+phenomenal+awareness.+In+this+paper%2C+a+theory+of+awareness+is+proposed+that+counters+this+assertion+by+incorporating+two+advances%3A+(1)+a+formal+definition+of+representation%2C+expressed+in+a+functional+notation%3A+Newell's+Representation+Law%2C+and+2)+the+introduction+of+real+time+into+the+analysis+of+awareness.+This+leads+to+the+definition+of+phenomenal+awareness+as+existing+whenever+an+object+contains+an+autonomously+updated+configuration+satisfying+the+Representation+Law+with+respect+to+some+aspects+of+its+environment.+The+relational+aspect+of+the+Representation+Law+permits+the+development+of+multiple+levels+of+awareness%2C+which+provides+for+the+existence+of+illusions+and+hallucinations%2C+and+permits+the+identification+of+a+new+measure%2C+accuracy+of+awareness+.+The+relational+perspective+also+permits+the+incorporation+of+referential+concepts+into+the+framework.+Qualia+can+then+be+identified+with+referentially+opaque+elements+of+awareness.+The+functional+form+of+the+Representation+Law+is+linked+to+neurophysiology+and+the+underlying+phenomena+of+chemistry+and+physics+by+phenomena+involving+activity-dependent+connectivity.&rft.date=1997-11&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F731%2F1%2FASR9.htm&rft.identifier=++McKee%2C+George++(1997)+The+Engine+of+Awareness%3A+Autonomous+Synchronous+Representations.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F731%2F