executive theory

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consciousness

  • Max Weber
    In philosophy of mind: Executives, buffers, and HOTs

    Executive theories, such as the theory proposed by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980), stress the role of conscious states in deliberation and planning. Many philosophers, however, doubt that all such executive activities are conscious; they suspect instead that conscious states play a more tangential…

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