--- 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.' altloc: - ftp://ftp.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/manuscripts/articles/Mal1997.ps.gz - ftp://ftp.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/manuscripts/articles/Mal1997.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: von der Malsburg given: Christoph honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-05-09 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/14/87 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Ito given: M. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Miyashita given: Y. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Rolls given: E. T. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1487 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/1487/1/Mal1997.ps|/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/1487/5/Mal1997.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:38 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 193-204 pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Cognition, Computation and Consciousness' publisher: Oxford University Press refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 14 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:38:09 subjects: - bio-ani-cog - bio-theory - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The Coherence Definition of Consciousness type: bookchapter userid: 1565 volume: ~