TY - INPR ID - cogprints974 UR - http://cogprints.org/974/ A1 - Aerts, Diederik A1 - Broekaert, Jan A1 - Gabora, Liane Y1 - 2000/// N2 - A stream of conscious experience is extremely contextual; it is impacted by sensory stimuli, drives and emotions, and the web of associations that link, directly or indirectly, the subject of experience to other elements of the individual's worldview. The contextuality of one's conscious experience both enhances and constrains the contextuality of one's behavior. Since we cannot know first-hand the conscious experience of another, it is by way of behavioral contextuality that we make judgements about whether or not, and to what extent, a system is conscious. Thus we believe that a deep understanding of contextuality is vital to the study of consciousness. Methods have been developed for handling contextuality in the microworld of quantum particles. Our goal has been to investigate the extent to which these methods can be used to analyze contextuality in conscious experience. PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company, Philadelphia PA KW - contextuality KW - consciousness KW - hierarchy KW - concepts KW - cognition KW - quantum KW - collapse KW - superposition KW - stimuli KW - drive KW - emotion KW - conceptual network KW - emergence KW - criticality KW - constraint KW - microworld KW - closure KW - worldview KW - association KW - relationship KW - association KW - self organization KW - perturbation KW - edge of chaos KW - animal KW - opinion KW - probability KW - liar paradox KW - Hilbert space KW - illusion TI - Intrinsic Contextuality as the Crux of Consciousness AV - public ER -