?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+investigation+of+consciousness+through+phenomenology+and+neuroscience&rft.creator=MacLennan%2C+Bruce+J.&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=The+principal+problem+of+consciousness+is+how+brain+processes+cause+subjective+awareness.+Since+this+problem+involves+subjectivity%2C+ordinary+scientific+methods%2C+applicable+only+to+objective+phenomena%2C+cannot+be+used.+Instead%2C+by+parallel+application+of+phenomenological+and+scientific+methods%2C+we+may+establish+a+correspondence+between+the+subjective+and+the+objective.+This+correspondence+is+effected+by+the+construction+of+a+theoretical+entity%2C+essentially+an+elementary+unit+of+consciousness%2C+the+intensity+of+which+corresponds+to+electrochemical+activity+in+a+synapse.+Dendritic+networks+correspond+to+causal+dependencies+between+these+subjective+units.+Therefore%2C+the+structure+of+conscious+experience+is+derived+from+synaptic+connectivity.+This+parallel+phenomenal%2Fneural+analysis+provides+a+framework+for+the+investigation+of+a+number+of+problems%2C+including+sensory+inversions%2C+the+unity+of+consciousness%2C+and+the+nature+of+nonhuman+consciousness.&rft.publisher=Lawrence+Erlbaum+Associates%2C+Mahwah&rft.contributor=King%2C+Joseph&rft.contributor=Pribram%2C+Karl+H.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F380%2F2%2FICTPN.ps&rft.identifier=++MacLennan%2C+Bruce+J.++(1995)+The+investigation+of+consciousness+through+phenomenology+and+neuroscience.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F380%2F