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Ephemeral Levels of Mental Organization: Darwinian Competitions as a Basis for Consciousness

 William H. Calvin
  
 

Abstract:

While I appreciate the scientific technique of picking away at pieces of a problem, I think that we greatly underestimate consciousness when we attempt to redefine it as merely awareness or selective attention. These are rather low-level capabilities in the neurologist's pantheon of mental abilities.

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