title: Consciousness: An afterthought
creator: Harnad, Stevan
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: Our sense that we do something deliberately may be an                                afterthought that arises after our brains have already triggered our action                                unconsciously. Consciousness itself may be a similar illusory afterthought,                                with no direct causal role. In any case, Methodological epiphenomenalism,                                together with the Turing Test, seem to be be the best strategy for cognitive                                modelling.
date: 1982
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1570/1/harnad82.consciousness.html
identifier:   Harnad, Stevan  (1982) Consciousness: An afterthought.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1570/