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Conscious Experience and Memory

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Brain and Conscious Experience

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I have chosen the expression “conscious experience’’ in preference to the simple term consciousness in order to stress the experienced character of consciousness in all its aspects. I prefer this expression to the term experienced integration or EI that was employed by Fessard [1954] in his distinguished contribution to the symposium Brain Mechanisms and Consciousness. Nevertheless, “experienced integration” has the advantage of stressing the integrative character of brain action in the synthesis of conscious experiences from the most diverse sensory inputs. Fessard builds his contribution around the answers to three fundamental questions: “What neuronal activity is most likely to correspond to the existence of EI? How can we conceive of the integrative process that transforms an assembly of separately active neurone pools in the brain into a unified pattern? Where are all these processes likely to take place?” And much of our discussion at this symposium will relate to these three questions.

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    J. C. Eccles (Professor of Physiology)

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    J. C. Eccles (Professor of Physiology)

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Eccles, J.C. (1965). Conscious Experience and Memory. In: Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Conscious Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49168-9_14

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