Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-tf8b9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T00:36:53.411Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Awareness may be existence as well as (higher-order) thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3 [email protected] psych.utoronto.ca/~peterson/welcome.htm
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Rolls attributes to consciousness the functions of reflection, planning, and error-correction. Neuropsychologically grounded cybernetic theory provides an analogous, broader conceptualization: consciousness constructs goals (and plans), alters the valence of goal-related phenomena, registers error-signals, and explores unexpected circumstances (reconfiguring goals and plans as necessary). Consciousness plays a fundamental unrecognized ontological role, as well, conferring the status of “discriminable object” on select aspects of otherwise indeterminate “being.”

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 214 - 215
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)