title: Locating consciousness: We are conflicted by the role of conflict.
abstract: What is consciousness for? Consciousness allows us to handle conflict, a promising proposal by Morsella et al. However, they provide little evidence as to why consciousness is particularly valuable in resolving conflict, nor do they limit the role of consciousness to only conflicting experiences. We attempt to clarify their possible positions and offer several solutions for how these might be formulated and tested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of California,Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz,CA 95060.massaro@ucsc.eduwrowe@ucsc.eduhttp://mambo.ucsc.edu/dominic-massaro/.
authors.forename: Dom
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Massaro
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of California,Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz,CA 95060.massaro@ucsc.eduwrowe@ucsc.eduhttp://mambo.ucsc.edu/dominic-massaro/.
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rowe
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans