The Emergence of Primary Anoetic Consciousness in Episodic memory. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Based on an interdisciplinary perspective, we discuss how primary-process, anoetic forms of consciousness emerge into higher forms of awareness such as knowledge-based episodic knowing self-aware forms of higher-order consciousness like autonoetic awareness. Anoetic consciousness is defined as the rudimentary state of raw affective, homeostatic and sensory-perceptual mental experiences, which we surely share with other, evolutionarily related ...