Is Learning the Cognitive Basis of Consciousness? The Moral Implications of SOMA

Published on October 7, 2020

In a recent article, Cleeremans et al. [1] presented the self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) of consciousness. According to SOMA, consciousness emerges as result of the development of a second-order system that subtends phenomenal experiences. Central to SOMA is a self–other loop that lets the individual develop a model of agenthood by observing and interacting with others. The model of agenthood is constructed from smaller models of unobservable internal states inferred in or attributed to other agents.

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