title: What if consciousness has no function?
abstract: An implicitly dualist or Cartesian materialist theory of consciousness is proposed without citing the many well-known problems with such theories. A function for consciousness is proposed with no reference to the possibility that "consciousness itself" has no function of its own. The theory builds on proposed "subset consensus" and "integration consensus" when in the literature there is no such consensus on these issues.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology,University of Plymouth,Portland Square,Plymouth PL4 8AA,United Kingdom.susan.blackmore@plymouth.ac.ukwww.susanblackmore.uk.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blackmore
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological