Building on the ‘hard’ problem of consciousness: the causal how and why do neurophysiological activities produce the experience of consciousness (and not just the correlational where), this talk asks: is consciousness exclusively cortical? Is it just a cognitive function? Or is consciousness an affective function as well; which is only secondarily ‘extended’ upwards to the ‘higher’ perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that Freud described as the systems Pcpt.-Cs. and Pcs?
