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Jussi Jylkkä, Henry Railo
Why any type of neural activation is associated with subjective, conscious experience is a fundamental unsolved question in neuroscience. To bridge the gap between neural activity and conscious experience, one seemingly must tie together two very different entities. The paradigmatic view in consciousness science is…
G Vithoulkas, DF Muresanu
While consciousness has been examined extensively in its different aspects, like in philosophy, psychiatry, neurophysiology, neuroplasticity, etc., conscience though it is an equal important aspect of the human existence, which remains an unknown to a great degree as an almost transcendental aspect of the human mind.…
Arosh S. Perera Molligoda Arachchige, Afanasy Svet, Maria Svet, Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Understanding consciousness remains one of the most significant challenges in neuroscience, philosophy, and cognitive science. Despite substantial advances in neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling, a comprehensive account of the neural basis of conscious experience has yet to emerge. This review…
Jesse J. Winters
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of neuroscientific theories of consciousness. These include theories which explicitly point to EM fields, notably Operational Architectonics and, more recently, the General Resonance Theory. In phenomenological terms, human consciousness is a unified composition of…
Conor H. Murray, Kafui Dzirasa, Dana Sawyer, Karen Waconda-Lewis + 2 more
What consciousness is, and how it relates to the body and nature at large, are among the most enduring questions in human history. Notable thinkers have long grappled with its definition, mechanisms, and purpose. In this review, we examine both historical and contemporary perspectives on consciousness across…
Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio
Living organisms achieve homeostasis by using distinct mechanisms tailored to their physiological complexity. Unicellular organisms as well as plants, which are devoid of nervous systems, rely on covert sensing/detecting and equally covert responding mechanisms. Organisms with nervous systems rely on overt…
Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch
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Zihan Ding, Xiaoxi Wei, Yidan Xu
Human consciousness has been a long-lasting mystery for centuries, while machine intelligence and consciousness is an arduous pursuit. Researchers have developed diverse theories for interpreting the consciousness phenomenon in human brains from different perspectives and levels. This paper surveys several main…
Charles Johnstone, Prashant S. Alegaonkar
The way we view the reality of nature, including ourselves, depend on consciousness.It also defines the identity of the person, since we know people in terms of their experiences. In general, consciousness defines human existence in this universe. Furthermore, consciousness is associated with the most debated problems…
Christopher W. Tyler, Kyumin Moon, Georg Northoff
This paper considers three classes of analyses of the nature of consciousness: abstract theories of the functional organization of consciousness, and concrete proposals as to the neural substrate of consciousness, while providing a rationale for contesting non-neural and transcendental conceptualizations of…
A. Fontan, L. Lindgren, T. Pedale, C. Brorsson + 2 more
Being conscious is a profound aspect of human existence, and understanding its function and its inception is considered one of the truly grand scientific challenges. However, the nature of consciousness remains enigmatic, to a large part because “being conscious” can refer to both the content (phenomenology) and the…
David Nussbaum, Khadija Ibrahim
Behavioral neuroscience has presented philosophers with the task of clarifying the relationship between neural determinism and free will. If neural functions encode information and govern decision-making, are the constructs of will, agency and indeed morality illusions of pre-scientific ignorance? This article will…
Ram Kumar Pari
Stroboscopic stimulation has been previously shown to induce visual hallucinations and altered states of consciousness, state by entraining the brain to the driving frequency, similar to those reported during the psychedelics although little systematic research exists on the effect of specific stimulation frequency on…
Craig I. McKenzie
general intelligence Authors: ['Craig I. McKenzie'] Consciousness is notoriously hard to define with objective terms. An objective definition of consciousness is critically needed so that we might accurately understand how consciousness and resultant choice behaviour may arise in biological or artificial systems. Many…
Shri Lal Raghudev Ram Singh
This paper presents a novel paradigm of the local perceptperceiver phenomenon to formalise certain observations in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. Using this model, a set-theoretic formalism is developed for artificial systems, and the existence of machine consciousness is proved by invoking Zermelo–Fraenkel…
Patrick Krauss, Andreas Maier
The question of whether artificial beings or machines could become self-aware or conscious has been a philosophical question for centuries. The main problem is that self-awareness cannot be observed from an outside perspective and the distinction of being really self-aware or merely a clever imitation cannot be…
Melanie Boly, Richard Smith, Giulietta Vigueras Borrego, Joan Paul Pozuelos + 3 more
Pure presence (PP) is described in several meditative traditions as an experience of a vast, vivid luminosity devoid of perceptual objects, thoughts, and self. Integrated information theory (IIT) predicts that such vivid experiences may occur when the substrate of consciousness in the cerebral cortex is virtually…
Kathinka Evers, Michele Farisco, Raja Chatila, Brian D. Earp + 5 more
'Ismael T. Freire' 'Fred H. Hamker' 'Erik Németh' 'Paul F. M. J. Verschure' 'Mehdi Khamassi'] Is artificial consciousness theoretically possible? Is it plausible? If so, is it technically feasible? To make progress on these questions, it is necessary to lay some groundwork clarifying the logical and empirical…
Georg Northoff, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo
Consciousness is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience. To explain the relationship between consciousness and its neural correlates, various theories have been proposed. We still lack a formal framework that can address the nature of the relationship between consciousness and its physical substrates though. Here…
Anh-Thu Mai, Tijl Grootswagers, Thomas A. Carlson
The mere presence of information in the brain does not always mean that this information is available to consciousness (15). Experiments using paradigms such as binocular rivalry, visual masking, and the attentional blink have shown that visual information can be processed and represented by the visual system without…
Zepeng Fang, Yuanyuan Dang, Anan Ping, Chenyu Wang + 4 more
Human high-order thalamic nuclei have been known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, given the great difference of conscious states and contents (conscious perception), it is nearly unknown how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute to the transient process of…
Alexzander Samuelsson, Eric Janusson, Sajni Shah, Markus Roggen
The alkaloid psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and the neurologically active psilocin (4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) are the foremost compounds of pharmaceutical interest in Psilocybe mushrooms. As these compounds are infrequently analyzed in analytical labs, validated methods for rapid purity…
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This paper formally defines an operational isomorphism between spectral damping in molecular vibronic systems and neuromodulatory control in biological sensory systems. Without asserting causal continuity or physical identity across scales, we show that both domains instantiate the same class of output-selective…