In:Consciousness: New perspectives, artificial consciousness, and the scientific progress of psychology
Sam S. Rakover
[Advances in Consciousness Research 96] 2026
► pp. 16–35
Chapter 2Can consciousness be explained?
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Article outline
- 2.1A brief review of attempts to solve the problem of consciousness
- 2.2Can human behavior be explained purely mechanistically?
- 2.3Has a theory of consciousness (TC) been developed
to explain the relationship between neurophysiological
processes in the brain and CΨ?- 2.3.1Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
- 2.3.2Global Workspace Theory (GWT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) of consciousness
- 2.3.3Higher-Order (HO) theories of consciousness
- 2.3.4Quantum theories of consciousness
- 2.4Is it possible to reduce cognitive explanations grounded
in the concept of consciousness to mechanistic explanations
(such as neurophysiological explanations)? - 2.5A tentative proposal: Consciousness as an explanatory but unexplained concept
