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Getting the vehicle moving

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

George N. Reeke
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Biological Modelling, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected]

Abstract

O'Brien & Opie present an attractive alternative to the popular but flawed computational process approach to conscious awareness. Their “vehicle” theory, however, is itself seriously flawed by overstrict allegiance to the notion that explicit representation and stability are defining hallmarks of consciously experienced neural activity patterns. Including reentrant interactions among time-varying patterns in different brain areas can begin to repair their theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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