Conscious Experiences are a Memory Process

Abstract

Burt's objections to consciousness as cybernetics are considered, and the cybernetic versions of Place and Taylor are assessed. Concepts of consciousness as a reactive emergent entity and an overlying nervous system are noticed. In Roberts' version basic states or objects, the self, and relations of self to states or objects are the experiential parts of consciousness, and are cybernetically identifiable. Gradable organizations of these parts are, while in immediate memory process, conscious experiences. The generic term consciousness, meaning subjective being of something, is “something” in immediate memory process.