What makes a conscious process conscious?
Newell & Shanks' (N&S's) critical review considers only a very limited sense in which mental processes can be thought of as either conscious or unconscious and consequently gives a misleading analysis of the role of consciousness in human information processing. This commentary provides an expanded analysis of conscious processing that also reveals the various ways in which mental processes are unconscious.
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom. m.velmans@gold.ac.uk http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/velmans/
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D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology