Attending to the Illusion of Consciousness

Dewhurst, Joe and Dolega, Krzysztof (2020): Attending to the Illusion of Consciousness. In: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 27: pp. 54-61

Abstract

Chalmers (2018) raises three challenges for Michael Graziano 's attention schema theory. Our aim in this paper is to bolster Graziano's attention schema theory with some tools and insights from the predictive processing framework, in order to respond to the challenges raised by Chalmers and more generally strengthen the theory. We will first introduce the attention schema theory and the three challenges raised by Chalmers, before outlining our application of predictive processing to the theory and how it can resolve these challenges, thus offering a solution to the meta-problem.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy
• ISSN: 1355-8250
• Language: English