Consciously Thinking About Consciousness

摘要

Merker hypothesized that because mobile creatures move around and must constantly readjust their "map of the world" and because the demands are so great for continually processing information for a "map of the world," evolution has created a space in the brain where such preprocessing has been eliminated. This space he calls "consciousness" with the preprocessing in the "unconscious." Using Merker's view, this paper explores the process of changing paradigms, giving advice and the implications for learning.