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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Jan 1;2(2):98–113. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.565121

Figure 4.

Figure 4

A traditional view in which consciousness emerges from the information processed in the brain. Consideration of Arrow A, how the brain creates consciousness, leads to much controversy and little insight. Consideration of Arrow B, how consciousness affects the brain, leads to the inference that consciousness must be information, because only information can act as grist for decision machinery, and we can decide that we have consciousness.