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The emergence of consciousness: BUC versus SOC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Ron Sun
Affiliation:
CECS Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 rsun@cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun

Abstract

This commentary suggests that there are two distinct types of interacting cognitive processes. Conscious processes emerge from unconscious processes. The key problem of SOC is that it uses an overly narrow notion of the “cognitive unconscious” to show that the “cognitive unconscious” is not necessary. Yet, it has little to say about the roles of conscious and unconscious processes in general.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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