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Memory and sensory input are linked as fundamental components of conscious experience [1], where memory provides the context necessary to assign meaning to sensory inputs {fact:2, fact:4}. Furthermore, memory acts as a mechanism that allows sensory inputs to trigger behavioral responses, such as avoiding danger [2].
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The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org 3 facts
claimIndividuals encode information about hazardous or rewarding situations in real-time memory, allowing affective experiences (qualia) to assign specific meanings to sensory inputs, such as the need to avoid a predator.
perspectiveLacalli conjectures that a key function of consciousness, related to both memory and distinguishable qualia, is to assign meaning to sensory inputs.
referenceBudson et al. (2022) propose a model where consciousness modulates appetitive actions in foraging animals by slowing or redirecting behavior when sensory inputs evoke conscious sensations of danger through memory.
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 1 fact
claimThe first-person perspective of a mental event is defined as the experience of sensory input, a memory, an idea, an emotion, a mood, or a continuous temporal sequence of happenings.