TY - GEN ID - cogprints1487 UR - http://cogprints.org/1487/ A1 - von der Malsburg, Christoph Y1 - 1997/// N2 - I 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. PB - Oxford University Press TI - The Coherence Definition of Consciousness SP - 193 AV - public EP - 204 ER -