Is consciousness a passive recipient of the end-product of sophisticated unconscious computations?

Category

Journal Article

Authors

Perruchet, P., Poulin-Charronnat, B.

Year

2012

Title

Is consciousness a passive recipient of the end-product of sophisticated unconscious computations?

Journal / book / conference

Frontiers in Psychology

Abstract

The “hierarchical prediction machine” approach proposed by Clark shares with the standard computationalism the postulate of a powerful cognitive unconscious that “does the job.” All the possible options about the current percept are assumed to be computed and ordered as a function of their probability outside of any conscious experience,
and, as we understand the approach, conscious thought is nothing else as the passive recipient of the ready-to-use end-result of the computation of multiple probability distributions.

Issue

Art 413

Volume

3

Pages

1-2

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