title: Consciousness And Adaptive Behavior creator: Sieb, Richard/A. subject: Physiological Psychology subject: Philosophy of Mind subject: Neurophysiology subject: Behavioral Neuroscience description: Consciousness has resisted scientific explanation for centuries. The main problem in explaining consciousness is its subjectivity. Subjective systems may be adaptive. Humans can produce voluntary new or novel intentional (adaptive) action and such action is always accompanied by consciousness. Action normally arises from perception. Perception must be rerepresented in order to produce new or novel adaptive action. The internal explicit states produced by a widespread nonlinear emergent mechanism from perception have all the same properties as consciousness. Hence they may be identical to consciousness. Consciousness is natural, material, and functional; utilized in the production of adaptive action. date: 2005-02 type: Preprint type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/3908/1/Docum.html identifier: Sieb, Richard/A. (2005) Consciousness And Adaptive Behavior. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/3908/