Sushrut Thorat

Towards a full-stack functionalist theory of consciousness: Identifying its functional profile

If consciousness is functional, a basic question is what awareness of a content actually changes in how a system operates on it. We ask, for a particular content X and mental or bodily process Y, whether awareness of X changes whether, or how well, X can be used in process Y. Crucially, X-aware and X-unaware conditions...