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The study of the nature and source of consciousness needs to go beyond standard neuroscience. The qualitative nature of mental states indicates that they may not be reducible to neural activity. This paper proposes the adoption of broader three-part model involving the distinctive functions of neural processing, non-sentient mental cognitive processing and subjective experience. This model of consciousness better accounts for phenomenal awareness and addresses some of the anomalies of neuroscience, such as sparseness, time lag etc. The paper provides resolutions to certain standard challenges to non-neural functions and indicates the benefits and opportunities that this model offers.
“A Layered Model of Human Consciousness”
International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT (iJES)
The human brain’s structure operates as a systemic whole with an absolute interdependence between its respective parts. Processes, such as information, consciousness, awareness, conscience depict humans’ layered consciousness state, but also the wholeness, coherence and continuity of human cognition. Awareness contains self-awareness, a fundamental metacognitive ability, through which individuals perceive the internal world of thoughts, reflect, imagine, feel emotions and daydream as well as external awareness, through which individuals perceive the outside world with the help of the five senses. Moreover, neuroplasticity and consciousness are bi-directionally connected; consciousness, on the one hand, is the result of the growing complexity of the brain connectivity and, on the other hand, neuroplasticity stems from reorganizing brain connections through learning activities. The conscious brain is in a perpetual state of learning and evolvement; it learns how to describe and re-des...
Consciousness: a unique way of processing information
Cognitive processing, 2018
In this article, I argue that consciousness is a unique way of processing information, in that: it produces information, rather than purely transmitting it; the information it produces is meaningful for us; the meaning it has is always individuated. This uniqueness allows us to process information on the basis of our personal needs and ever-changing interactions with the environment, and consequently to act autonomously. Three main basic cognitive processes contribute to realize this unique way of information processing: the self, attention and working memory. The self, which is primarily expressed via the central and peripheral nervous systems, maps our body, the environment, and our relations with the environment. It is the primary means by which the complexity inherent to our composite structure is reduced into the "single voice" of a unique individual. It provides a reference system that (albeit evolving) is sufficiently stable to define the variations that will be use...
Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 1994
Following the advice of I.P. Pavlov to the effect that “it is important to understand psychologically before translating a phenomenon into physiological language”, the author defines more precisely the content and origin of consciousness as a phenomenon of human higher nervous activity. The necessity of distinguishing two fundamentally different phenomena in the sphere of unconscious mental activity, defined as subconsciousness and superconsciousness, is substantiated. The emotional languages of superconsciousness are described, namely, the senses of beauty, humor, and conscience. The contradictory nature of objectively determined behavior along with subjectively experienced freedom of choice are regarded from the points of view of their initial supplementarity. It is asserted that the activity of superconsciousness, recombining previously accumulated experience, underlies the so-called self-determination of behavior, as a result of which decision options may arise that have never been encountered previously. In other words: the freedom that is maximally available to man is manifested in his creative activity.