Competing for consciousness: A Darwinian mechanism at an appropriate level of explanation

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 389-404

  Calvin, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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