Projektnummer

0052654

Zusammenfassung

Contrary to the classical view in philosophy and cognitive sciences, recent accounts in philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience view thoughts not as a special kind of mental representation, but as motor representations that are not systematically different from those involved in motor processes. In particular, these accounts propose that thoughts might be generated, controlled and modified in the same way as motor processes, that is, by resorting to internal comparator mechanisms, which would compare intentions to think with the actual thoughts in the stream of consciousness ("th...