The Efficacy Of Primary Consciousness Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edelman (1992: 121):

Consciousness is not merely an epiphenomenon. According to the TNGS, primary consciousness helps to abstract and organise complex changes in an environment involving multiple parallel signals. Even though some of these signals may have no direct causal connection to each other in the outside world, they may be significant indicators to the animal of danger or reward. This is because primary consciousness connects their features in terms of the saliency determined by the animal's past history and its values.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, primary consciousness 'helps to abstract and organise' construals of experience as perceptual meaning, and connects current instantiations of perceptual meaning with the system of perceptual potential, differentially weighted for adaptive value, as accumulated through the animal's past history of construing experience as perceptual meaning.