title: Explaining consciousness: From correlations to foundations.
abstract: What does it take to explain the roles of consciousness for action and action for consciousness? This commentary claims that efficient functional explanations must meet two epistemological requirements: independent description of explanandum and explanans, and foundational explanation of their mutual relationship. It is argued that Morsella et al.'s target articledoes not fully meet these requirements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences,04103 Leipzig,Germany.prinz@cbs.mpg.dehttp://www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/prinz-10359/@@index.html.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Prinz
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge