Is Learning the Cognitive Basis of Consciousness? The Moral Implications of SOMA

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¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: morten.storm.overgaard@cfin.au.dk.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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Morten Overgaard et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;25(1):8-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.004. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: morten.storm.overgaard@cfin.au.dk.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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Keywords: consciousness; emergence; learning; self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA); theory of mind.

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