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Comparators, functions, and experiences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Harold Merskey
Affiliation:
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London Psychiatric Hospital, London, Ontario N6A 4H1, Canada

Abstract

The comparator model is insufficient for three reasons. First, consciousness is involved in the process of comparison as well as in the output. Second, we still do not have enough neurophysiological information to match the events of consciousness, although such knowledge is growing. Third, the anatomical localisation proposed can be damaged bilaterally but consciousness will persist.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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