ABSTRACT
The background text raises the question of the relation between philosophy and psychology, in particular, whether this is one of dependence or independence. Philosophy employs logic as its main tool, whereas psychology employs observation, quantification and controlled experimentation. Two lines of evidence are open to the supporter of the 'dependence' position: philosophical influences on psychology and psychological influences on philosophy. Philosophy can make important contributions to metapsychology, for example, by clarifying distinctions between different types of explanation. Psychology may contribute facts that lead to the revision of commonly held philosophical notions. Although there are numerous areas of apparent common subject-matter, philosophical and psychological questions, although superficially similar, generally demand very different kinds of answer. The unified and holistic nature of consciousness he identifies with the distributed nature of representation, such that information about an environment is stored across the entire surface of the hippocampus and each neuron may participate in the storage of many environments.
