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This Conference deals with the linkage of two items of an essentially different character. To what an extent this is true may be elucidated by reading the last paragraph of the chapter devoted to the theme “brain and consciousness,” in the green program book, where one finds on pp. 18–19 that,
As to the meaning of the term “consciousness,” the Study Week intends that it strictly designates the psychophysiological concept of perceptual capacity, of awareness of perception, and the ability to act and react accordingly.
Consequently, the subject which the invited scientists are requested to discuss, has to be duly delimited by this semantic acceptation, which is of a strictly scientific character.
It is obvious, that every extrapolation of the meaning of the term “consciousness” leading the subject into an extra-scientific field, would be contrary to the spirit of the Study Week.1
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As organizer of the Study Week I have to report that this statement with its strange linguistic usages was not referred to me for approval or even for comment before it was printed and circulated to all participants of the symposium! J. C. Eccles
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The term epiphenomenon should, in this connection, not be taken as a valuing expression, depreciating the conscious experience. The term is used here in a strictly descriptive manner, expressing, that for one and the same neuronal process, consciousness may or may not be present without having any influence on the quality of the neuronal output, as far as it is observed with physiological (that is, scientific) methods.
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Schaefer, H. (1965). Psychosomatic Problems of Vegetative Regulatory Functions. In: Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Conscious Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49168-9_21
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