Advances InInterdisciplinary Researches to Construct a Theory of Consciousness

Blanquet, Pierre R.

doi:10.4236/jbbs.2011.14031

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“…ssssssasp?issn = 0973-1229;year = 2011;volume = 9;issue = 1;month = January - December]. There have also been newer scientific reviews on moving towards an interdisciplinary perspective to study consciousness (Seth, 2010[198]; Singh and Singh, 2011[203]; Blanquet, 2011[20]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These interoceptive and exteroceptive experiences also differ widely from each other and many descriptive systems have been developed for investigating their phenomenology (in studies of visual and auditory perception, emotion, pain and so on). It must be evident that such developments in phenomenology are essentially the first steps in characterising what it is about consciousness that needs to be explained – and that restricting the phenomenology of ‘consciousness’ to the phenomenology of ‘thought’ is too narrow (Blanquet, 2011[20]).…”

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Towards an integrative theory of consciousness: Part 1 (Neurobiological and cognitive models)

Sousa¹

2013

Mens Sana Monogr

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The study of consciousness is poised today at interesting crossroads. There has been a surge of research into various neurobiological underpinnings of consciousness in the past decade. The present article looks at the theories regarding this complex phenomenon, especially the ones that neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology have to offer. We will first discuss the origin and etymology of word consciousness and its usage. Neurobiological correlates of consciousness are discussed with structures like the ascending reticular activating system, the amygdala, the cerebellum, the thalamus, the frontoparietal circuits, the prefrontal cortex and the precuneus. The cellular and microlevel theories of consciousness and cerebral activity at the neuronal level contributing to consciousness are highlighted, along with the various theories posited in this area. The role of neuronal assemblies and circuits along with firing patterns and their ramifications for the understanding of consciousness are discussed. A section on the role of anaesthesia and its links to consciousness is presented, along with details of split-brain studies in consciousness and altered states of awareness, including the vegetative states. The article finally discusses the progress cognitive psychology has made in identifying and theorising various perspectives of consciousness, perceptual awareness and conscious processing. Both recent and past researches are highlighted. The importance and salient features of each theory are discussed along with the pitfalls, if present. A need for integration of various theories to understand consciousness from a holistic perspective is stressed, to enable one to reach a theory that explains the ultimate neurobiology of consciousness.

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Towards an integrative theory of consciousness: Part 1 (Neurobiological and cognitive models)

Sousa¹

2013

Mens Sana Monogr

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“…There seems to be a conceptual obstacle to resolving this problem. Pierre Blanquet, among others, views it as a challenge not just for science but also, and primarily, for philosophy [57]. Therefore, the strategy of dealing with discontinuity has to change.…”

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Conservation, Creation, and Evolution: Revising the Darwinian Project

Shkliarevsky¹

2019

JES

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There is hardly anything more central to our universe than conservation. Many scientific fields and disciplines view the law of conservation as one of the most fundamental universal laws. The Darwinian model pivots the process of evolution on variability, reproduction, and natural selection. Conservation plays a marginal role in this model and is not really universal, as the model allows exceptions to conservation, i.e. non-conservation, to play an equally important role in evolution. This anomalous role of conservation in the Darwinian model raises questions: What is the reason for this anomaly? Is conservation really universal, as we tend to believe or is it not, as the Darwinian model suggests? This contribution proposes a new model of evolution that focuses on levels of organization, rather than of species, organisms, or populations. It argues that conservation is central to evolution. Not only does this new model restores the universal status of conservation but it also makes possible to resolve some outstanding problems and controversies that continue to plague the Darwinian model. The article tries to advance the broad Darwinian project that seeks to explain the process of evolution as a product of the spontaneous processes in nature.

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“…In the third-person perspective of objective consciousness, the majority of models of consciousness were elaborate with neurobiological, neurophysical and cognitive approaches. Philosophers and scientists who deal with the objective consciousness contents belong to two main streams of thought: dualism and monism [9]. Their efforts were intensified following espousal of dualism of Descartes and of monistic idealism of Berkeley.…”

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Towards a Possible Entropy-Driven Process of Consciousness

Blanquet¹

2018

JBBS

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In the present article, we argue that consciousness and body are not to be separate to explain the intentional consciousness of the human being facing to environment. 1) The most neurobiologist and neurocognitivist studies suggest that the emerging consciousness appears to be a generic recurring process which subsumes under it the various results of scientist approaches. When analyzed with the cybernetic transductive method of Simondon, this process can be viewed as a noetico-neuronal unit which the sui generis activity can be boiled down to concept of intentional consciousness. 2) Homeostasis can be also metaphorically described as a generic recurring process which subsumes under it the myriad molecular feedback loops of organism. This self-regulating dynamic process could be governed by the cosmologic (Earth + Universe) production of entropy, which would keep high activity and dissipating energy and low internal entropy to maintain an ordering in the organic structure. 3) Based on numerous arguments and data, the cerebral noetico-neuronal process and the self-regulating homeostasic process may be viewed as an entire physiological (brain + body) system. We suggest that the whole (brain + body) has an intentional embodied consciousness that could be driven by the cosmologic production of entropy 1 . 675Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science self identity and the homeostasic unit of the human being [1]- [6]. Without awareness, the body could not be voluntary, as evidenced by the neuro-vegetative coma, but without corporeity, consciousness could not be free. The self-maintaining of the subject requires us to believe that it is intentional psycho-physical unit that maintains the life of the individual. However, since the world is never outside the body, insofar as it belongs to the bodily system, we can admit that the human is always a whole "world-body-consciousness". So, in the light of this view, it should be possible to formulate a model of conscious psycho-physical unit whose intentionality would be due to interaction between two poles: a pole subject cognitive and a pole object "attractor". Recently, based on increasing evidence that the quantum physics is probably important for understanding of some biological phenomena, several neuro-scientists struggled to explain the permanent interaction between the brain and the environment in terms of process of quantum coherence [7]. Unfortunately, quantum coherence process in a wet biological system such as brain would seemingly require fulfillment of many unrealizable conditions. At the present time, there is impossibility to seriously propose a model of conscious psycho-physical unit which has only a quantum principle as a basis. Another possibility would be that the psycho-physical intricacy that keeps alive the individual is governed by the laws of dissipative nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems. As suggested by Nicolis and Prigogine [8], the alive being seems to behave as a non-isolated dissipative thermodynamic system which maintains its balance with the outsi...

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Advances InInterdisciplinary Researches to Construct a Theory of Consciousness

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

Towards an integrative theory of consciousness: Part 1 (Neurobiological and cognitive models)

Towards an integrative theory of consciousness: Part 1 (Neurobiological and cognitive models)

Conservation, Creation, and Evolution: Revising the Darwinian Project

Towards a Possible Entropy-Driven Process of Consciousness

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