Consciousness in Interaction The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
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Might consciousness be better understood as an interactive, situated achievement rather than as some kind of mystery ingredient added to passive perception? The <i>Consciousness in Interaction</i> research project pursued this fundamental question from multiple perspectives and (fittingly) in a series of highly interactive engagements that structured and informed this wonderful volume of essays. The volume is a fitting tribute to Susan Hurley, to whom it is dedicated, and a landmark publication in the search for a richer understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience.
- Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh,
Many hold that conscious experience is determined entirely locally, by internal processes in the brain. But even if that is true, we would also need to understand the subtle flow of contents, the ineffability, the convoluted, many-layered historicity of that target phenomenon, for this is what yields some of the most intriguing aspects of phenomenal experience: the ever-unfolding dance of coupled self-models, dying into each other while dynamically weaving our individual perspectives into the unfathomable mesh of the intersubjective world.
- Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,