creators_name: von der Malsburg, Christoph editors_name: Ito, M. editors_name: Miyashita, Y. editors_name: Rolls, E. T. type: bookchapter datestamp: 2001-05-09 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:38 metadata_visibility: show title: The Coherence Definition of Consciousness ispublished: pub subjects: bio-ani-cog subjects: bio-theory subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public abstract: 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. date: 1997 date_type: published publication: Cognition, Computation and Consciousness publisher: Oxford University Press pagerange: 193-204 refereed: TRUE citation: von der Malsburg, Christoph (1997) The Coherence Definition of Consciousness. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/1487/1/Mal1997.ps document_url: http://cogprints.org/1487/5/Mal1997.pdf