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Passive frame theory: A new synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

Ezequiel Morsella
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132-4168 morsella@sfsu.edu http://online.sfsu.edu/morsella/index.html Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
Christine A. Godwin
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318 cgodwin9@gatech.edu http://control.gatech.edu/people/graduate/cgodwin/
Tiffany K. Jantz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043 tkjantz@umich.edu http://prod.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/graduate-students/tkjantz.html
Stephen C. Krieger
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029-6574 stephen.krieger@mssm.edu http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/stephen-krieger
Adam Gazzaley
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158 Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158. adam.gazzaley@ucsf.edu http://gazzaleylab.ucsf.edu/people-profiles/adam-gazzaley/

Abstract

Passive frame theory attempts to illuminate what consciousness is, in mechanistic and functional terms; it does not address the “implementation” level of analysis (how neurons instantiate conscious states), an enigma for various disciplines. However, in response to the commentaries, we discuss how our framework provides clues regarding this enigma. In the framework, consciousness is passive albeit essential. Without consciousness, there would not be adaptive skeletomotor action.

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