Pinoy Mental Health Blog

I explained why understanding consciousness is important in my previous blog. In short, theories reason from assumptions not to them. Traditional cognitive theories assume consciousness and therefore can never explain it. This is a serious limitation. Not being able to explain consciousness means that psychologists cannot fully explain all that derives from consciousness which is essentially everything psychological. I concluded my previous blog by saying that neural network models are computational neuropsychological methods that offer the exciting possibility of advancing our understanding of real brain models including how they compute qualia, including the subjective experience of conscious awareness. In this blog I focus on the brain models of attention that Michael S. A. Graziano (2013) claims cause consciousness in his book entitled Consciousness and the Social Brain. Graziano reminded us that our conscious experience is a model of external reality, not an exact copy of it, by...