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