Extending Gurwitsch’s field theory of consciousness

•We describe and extend Aron Gurwitsch’s field theory of consciousness.•The field of consciousness has a complex, dynamic, internal structure.•The field of consciousness has a variable-size focus and structured periphery.•Conscious data causally influence one another via small-world-networks.•Consci...

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Veröffentlicht in:Consciousness and cognition Jg. 34; S. 104 - 123
Hauptverfasser: Yoshimi, Jeff, Vinson, David W.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2015
Elsevier BV
Schlagworte:
Attention
Cognition & reasoning
Consciousness
Consciousness - physiology
Embodied cognition
Global neuronal workspace
Gurwitsch
History, 20th Century
Humans
Inattention
Meta-stable dynamics
Neural correlates of consciousness
Neuropsychology
Phenomenology
Predictive coding
Psychological Theory
Psychology - history
Small world networks
Theory
Phenomenology
Neural correlates of consciousness
Gurwitsch
Meta-stable dynamics
Global neuronal workspace
Inattention
Attention
Predictive coding
Embodied cognition
Small world networks
ISSN:1053-8100, 1090-2376
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Zusammenfassung:•We describe and extend Aron Gurwitsch’s field theory of consciousness.•The field of consciousness has a complex, dynamic, internal structure.•The field of consciousness has a variable-size focus and structured periphery.•Conscious data causally influence one another via small-world-networks.•Consciousness proceeds smoothly or abruptly based on predictive networks. Aron Gurwitsch’s theory of the structure and dynamics of consciousness has much to offer contemporary theorizing about consciousness and its basis in the embodied brain. On Gurwitsch’s account, as we develop it, the field of consciousness has a variable sized focus or “theme” of attention surrounded by a structured periphery of inattentional contents. As the field evolves, its contents change their status, sometimes smoothly, sometimes abruptly. Inner thoughts, a sense of one’s body, and the physical environment are dominant field contents. These ideas can be linked with (and help unify) contemporary theories about the neural correlates of consciousness, inattention, the small world structure of the brain, meta-stable dynamics, embodied cognition, and predictive coding in the brain.
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ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2015.03.017