2001-05-09Z2011-03-11T08:54:38Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/1487This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/14872001-05-09ZThe Coherence Definition of ConsciousnessI will focus in this essay on a riddle that in my view is central to the consciousness issue: How does the mind or brain create the unity we perceive out of the diversity that we know is there? I contend this is a technical issue, not a philosophical one, although its resolution will have profound philosophical repercussions, and although we have at present little more than the philosophical method to attack it.Christoph von der Malsburg