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    Place Cells and Human Consciousness: A Force-Dynamic Account
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (3-4): 146-165. 2016.
    How does conscious thought occur? In the scene 'The cat is next to the dog', the cat is within a proximal distance to the left or right of the dog. This probabilistic proximal left/right cognitive space is an example of a mental 'place field'. A place field -- also in humans presumably represented by place cells in the hippocampus -- represents latent and thus potentially unconscious thought. Mentally 'seeing' the cat to the left or right is an example of a 'localized point' within a place field…Read more