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Jean-Pierre Changeux1, Michele Farisco2
1Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, Collège de France, Paris F-75005, France.
Abstract:
Debates in consciousness science increasingly question whether computational functionalism is sufficient to explain conscious processing. We summarize three core features of the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) theory that highlight the multilevel architecture of conscious processing, extending from cellular and molecular mechanisms to large-scale network dynamics. On this interpretation, GNW is not a functionalist computational theory, unlike the Global Workspace theory, with which it is frequently conflated.
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