PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE: PRE-PROOFED VERSION Homing in on Consciousness in the Nervous System: An Action-Based Synthesis
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The primary function of consciousness in the nervous system remains mysterious. Passive frame theory, a synthesis of empirically supported hypotheses from diverse fields of investigation, reveals that consciousness serves as a frame that constrains and directs skeletal muscle output, thereby yielding adaptive behavior. How consciousness achieves this is more counterintuitive, “low level,” and passive than the kinds of functions that theorists have attributed to consciousness. From this unique, action-based perspective, consciousness is in the service of the somatic nervous system. The framework begins to isolate the neuroanatomical, cognitive-mechanistic, and representational processes associated with consciousness.
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Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis.
What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of the lack of a conceptual framework with which to interpret the data. To this end, we have developed Passive Frame Theory, an internally coherent framework that, from an action-based perspective, synthesizes empirically...
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