title: The self-organizing consciousness.
abstract: We propose that the isomorphism generally observed between the representations composing our momentary phenomenal experience and the structure of the world is the end-product of a progressive organization that emerges thanks to elementary associative processes that take our conscious representations themselves as the stuff on which they operate, a thesis that we summarize in the concept of Self-Organizing Consciousness (SOC).
authors.affiliation: Université de Bourgogne, LEAD/CNRS, 21000 Dijon, France. pierre.perruchet@u-bourgogne.fr
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perruchet
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vinter
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001332:Automatism; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008128:Logic; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology