@article{143456,
  author = {Michael SA Graziano},
  title = {Attributing awareness to others: The attention schema theory and its relationship to behavioral prediction},
  abstract = { <span><span><span style="color:black">The attention schema theory provides a single coherent framework for understanding three seemingly unrelated phenomena. The first is our ability to control our own attention through predictive modeling. The second is a fundamental part of social cognition, or theory of mind {\textendash} our ability to reconstruct the attention of others, and to use that model of attention to help make behavioral predictions about others. The third is our claim to have a subjective consciousness {\textendash} not merely information inside us, but something else in addition that is non-physical {\textendash} and to believe that others have the same property. In the attention schema theory, all three phenomena stem from the same source. The brain constructs a useful internal model of attention. This article summarizes the theory and discusses one aspect of it in greater detail: how an attention schema may be useful for predicting the behavior of others. The article outlines a hypothetical, artificial system that can make time-varying behavioral predictions about other people, and concludes that attributing some form of awareness to others is a useful computational part of the prediction engine.</span></span></span> },
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Journal of Consciousness Studies},
  volume = {26},
  pages = {17-37},
  url = {https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020003/art00002},
  language = {eng},
}