A general theory of consciousness I: Consciousness and adaptation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A Theory of Consciousness
According to William James’ theory of mind (1890), our conscious mental life flows continuously like a stream in which “the transition between the thought of one object and the thought of another is no more a break in the thought than a joint in a bamboo is a break in the wood” (James, 1983, pp. 233-234). For this reason, he adopted the metaphor of “the stream of consciousness”. The stream is f...
متن کاملA Theory of Consciousness
There are two problems about consciousness that I consider most difficult to answer. The first problem concerns with the fact that, although consciousness is related to the activities of a neural system, it can not be simply reduced to the whole set of ongoing activities in that system. There are many activities that occur in our neural systems and our consciousness seems to correspond to only ...
متن کاملA Theory of Consciousness
A judicious division of labor often advances our understanding of things. This is no less true in the study of mind than in other areas of investigation. For example, because the intentional and sensory features of mental states differ radically, it is widely accepted that we will make progress by studying each kind of property independently of the other. Of course many mental phenomena, such a...
متن کاملCategory theory and consciousness
We propose a new research program which provides an approach to consciousness and the t problem ofdeep reality. Our model is based on category theory. The need to t relate l t local l behavior to global behavior has convinced us early on that a good model l for conscious entities had to be found in the notion of sheaf. With t this t i formulation, f l ti , every presheaf represents a brain (orr...
متن کاملA field theory of consciousness.
This article summarizes a variety of current as well as previous research in support of a new theory of consciousness. Evidence has been steadily accumulating that information about a stimulus complex is distributed to many neuronal populations dispersed throughout the brain and is represented by the departure from randomness of the temporal pattern of neural discharges within these large ensem...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communicative & Integrative Biology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1942-0889
DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2020.1713967