Do You Need to Be Conscious to Learn to Be Conscious?

Affiliations

¹ Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3), Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience (CRCN), ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles, B1050 Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: axcleer@ulb.ac.be.
² Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3), Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience (CRCN), ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles, B1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³ BeloT Neuromorphic Team, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Comment

Axel Cleeremans et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;25(1):9-11.

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.10.002. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

¹ Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3), Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience (CRCN), ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles, B1050 Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: axcleer@ulb.ac.be.
² Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3), Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience (CRCN), ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles, B1050 Brussels, Belgium.
³ BeloT Neuromorphic Team, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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Keywords: SOMA; Theory of Mind; consciousness; emergence; learning.

Comment on

Understanding the Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness.
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