Are there really autonomous "unconscious" goals that drive behavior? An event-control approach to goals and actions.

Narayanan Srinivasan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00723

Abstract

Are there really autonomous "unconscious" goals that drive behavior? An event-control approach to goals and actions.

Highlights

Edited by: Olivia Carter, University of Melbourne, Australia Reviewed by: Jim Parkinson, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, UK
We focus on the implications of an event-control approach to the conscious or unconscious nature of goals and their influence on perception and action
Such perception-action loops operating at multiple levels form the core of the event-control approach that has been proposed to understand consciousness, self and agency (Jordan, 2003; Kumar and Srinivasan, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Summary

Introduction

Edited by: Olivia Carter, University of Melbourne, Australia Reviewed by: Jim Parkinson, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, UK. They argue that both conscious and unconscious goals have similar effects on behavior. We focus on the implications of an event-control approach to the conscious or unconscious nature of goals and their influence on perception and action.

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