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Consciousness is for other people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Chris Frith
Affiliation:
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, % Cyclotron Unit, Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0HS, England, cfrith@cu.rpms.ac.uk

Abstract

Gray has expanded his account of schizophrenia to explain consciousness as well. His theory explains neither phenomenon adequately because he treats individual minds (and brains) in isolation. The primary function of consciousness is to permit high level interactions with other conscious beings. The key symptoms of schizophrenia reflect a failure of this mechanism.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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