AUTHOR=Overgaard Morten , Overgaard Rikke TITLE=Neural Correlates of Contents and Levels of Consciousness JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=1 YEAR=2010 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00164 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00164 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

Experimental investigations of the neural substrate of consciousness typically take one of two paths, studying (1) contents or (2) levels of consciousness. It seems obvious to most that these two “paths” are interrelated, yet much less obvious how. This paper gives one suggestion to grasp the interrelation, arguing that conscious levels are determined by conscious contents in a very specific way. It follows from the argument that conscious contents are so-called natural kinds, whereas conscious levels are not.