We consider the implications of the mathematical analysis of neurone-to-neurone dynamical complex networks. We show how the dynamical behaviour of small scale strongly connected networks lead naturally to non-binary information processing and thus multiple hypothesis decision making, even at the very lowest level of the brain's architecture. In turn we build on these ideas to address the hard problem of consciousness. We discuss how a proposed "dual hierarchy model", made up form of both external perceived, physical, elements of increasing complexity, and internal mental elements (experiences), may support a leaning and evolving consciousness. We discuss the idea that a human brain ought to be able to re-conjure subjective mental feelings at will and thus these cannot depend on internal nose (chatter) or internal instability-driven activity. An immediate consequence of this model, grounded in dynamical systems and non-binary information processing, is that finite human brains must always be learning or forgetteing and that any possible subjective internal feeling that may be idealised with a countable infinity of facets, can never be learned by zombies or automata: though it can be experienced more and more fully by an evolving brain (yet never in totality, not even in a lifetime).
Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Yale University(耶鲁大学);Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC(格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、萨瓦-蒙布朗大学、法国国家科学研究中心、LPNC);Neurology Department, CHU Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences(格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学医院神经内科、INSERM U1216、格勒诺布尔神经科学研究所);Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University(耶鲁大学跨学科神经科学项目);Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University(耶鲁大学神经外科系);Department of Neuroscience, Yale University(耶鲁大学神经科学系);St. Anne Univ. Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University(圣安妮大学医院与医学院,马萨里克大学);Behavioral and Social Neuroscience Research Group, CEITEC MU(行为与社会神经科学研究组,CEITEC MU);School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University(特拉维夫大学心理科学学院);Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University(特拉维夫大学萨戈尔神经科学学院);Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)(大脑、心智与意识项目,加拿大高等研究院(CIFAR));Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Alabama in Birmingham(阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校神经外科系);Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences(格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、INSERM U1216、格勒诺布尔神经科学研究所)
A Theoretical Solution of the Mind-Body Problem: An Operationalized Proof that no Purely Physical System Can Exhibit all the Properties of Human Consciousness
Human brain state classification via permutation entropy of EEG phase dynamics across consciousness levels and inattentive-type ADHD
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics(亚太理论物理中心);Pohang University of Science and Technology(浦项科技大学);Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science(基础科学研究院神经科学成像研究中心);Sungkyunkwan University(成均馆大学);Center for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study(韩国高等研究院人工智能与自然科学中心);Research Institute of Slowave Inc.(Slowave公司研究所);Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School(密歇根大学医学院麻醉学系)
A Neurocomputational Account of Flexible Goal-directed Cognition and Consciousness: The Goal-Aligning Representation Internal Manipulation Theory (GARIM)
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy(意大利国家研究委员会认知科学与技术研究所)