%0 Journal Article %T The Emergence of Primary Anoetic Consciousness in Episodic Memory %A Marie Vandekerckhove %A Luis Carlo Bulnes %A Jaak Panksepp %J Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience %D 2014 %I Frontiers Media %R 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00210 %X Based on an interdisciplinary perspective, we discuss how primary-process, anoetic forms of consciousness emerge into higher forms of awareness such as knowledge-based episodic knowing and self-aware forms of higher-order consciousness like autonoetic awareness. Anoetic consciousness is defined as the rudimentary state of affective, homeostatic, and sensory-perceptual mental experiences. It can be considered as the autonomic flow of primary-process phenomenal experiences that reflects a fundamental form of first-person ¡°self-experience,¡± a vastly underestimated primary form of phenomenal consciousness. We argue that this anoetic form of evolutionarily refined consciousness constitutes a critical antecedent that is foundational for all forms of knowledge acquisition via learning and memory, giving rise to a knowledge-based, or noetic, consciousness as well as higher forms of ¡°awareness¡± or ¡°knowing consciousness¡± that permits ¡°time-travel¡± in the brain-mind. We summarize the conceptual advantages of such a multi-tiered neuroevolutionary approach to psychological issues, namely from genetically controlled primary (affective) and secondary (learning and memory), to higher tertiary (developmentally emergent) brain-mind processes, along with suggestions about how affective experiences become more cognitive and object-oriented, allowing the developmental creation of more subtle higher mental processes such as episodic memory which allows the possibility of autonoetic consciousness, namely looking forward and backward at one¡¯s life and its possibilities within the ¡°mind¡¯s eye.¡± %K episodic memory %K anoetic consciousness %K noetic consciousness %K autonoetic consciousness %K self %K identity %U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00210/abstract