Abstract

This chapter discusses the neural basis of cognitive experience. There is no evidence found for the ability or inclination to engage in mutual conflict or criticism at the level of criteria of evaluation. Not all brain tissue, even in human beings, mediates conscious experience; and none of it does so all the time. Even cerebral cortex can be activated physiologically without eliciting sensory experience in normal waking subjects; and conscious experience can be lost in sleep or coma despite the presence of some cerebral activity. Cooperativity is a concept of increasing interest to neuroscientists at many levels. Evaluation is central to our human cognitive experience. The assessment of events, real and hypothetical, is as desirable or undesirable; good or bad; or plus or minus. Conscious agents are evaluators. The evaluative process supplies information at a rate that equals or exceeds the rate represented by the selective sequence.

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