InformationBased Hierarchical Brain Organization/ Evolution from the Perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness

Abstract

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What Is Life: An Informational Model of the Living Structures

“…Three main circuits are to be distinguished from Figure 1: metabolic (body maintenance) circuit managed by MIS, characteristic for the matter/energy processing, Operative Informational circuit/System for adaptation (OISmainly composed by CASI+CDC+IES), and epigenetic circuit, allowing the integration of input information into the genetic system as a consequence of a long-time repetitive or intensively felt signal/cue [43]. We have to note again that from the organizational/primness information-gain perspective, the distinctive functions described by IMHB appears as a natural consequence of the brain compartmentalization in specialized functional regions on the evolutionary scale [26], acting in a modular way [43], which allows a better operational efficiency, according with the adaptive necessities.…”

“…The aggregation of small molecules to form proteins and the change of their configuration to folded 3D proteins is also a process with gain of information and loss of entropy [6]. Epigenetic processes not only represents the pathway patented by nature to absorb information from environment and to integrate it into the living structure [25], but also are an efficient and proactive way to lower their entropy and gain in organization/information on the evolutionary scale [26].…”

“…The imprescriptible principles of the cell life discovered in biology [35] The specific functions of human and subhuman organisms are organized in characteristic (compartmentalized) informational regions of the brain, structured by an info-evolution process [26] to increase the efficiency/complexity of info-operability, as discussed above.…”

“…In opposition with the human, it is more difficult to understand how an emotional system would work in subhuman or inferior living structures. Some recent studies shows however that like in human, the primitive "emotions" should be also perceived in the primitive living structures as a binary positive/negative, "good/bad" (YES/NO) experiential/selectively learned "lessons", classified according to previous memorized experience [18], playing a regulatory role as an adaptive process in E-coli bacterium [46] and the successive organisms on the evolutionary scale [26]. A generalization of IES in a living system, redefined as an Informational Reactive-Sentient System (IRSS), can be described therefore as a sentience interaction processes [41], supported by the internal molecular self-regulatory balance, when a stimulating/proactive informational factor (specifically the input information) triggers/determines an interaction with another component of the system, this one transmitting the signal to a sensitive specialized part of such a system, to be interpreted as an "emotion".…”

Info-Relational Cognitive Operability of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex According to the Informational Model of Consciousness

“…As a subcortical structure, neuro-communicating with cortex (CASI/CDC) and limbic (IES)/sub-limbic (MIS) systems of the brain, the cingulate cortex fulfils various functions both in cognition (attention/associated eyes motor, anticipation, decision-making, ethics/morality, emotions, error detection and autonomic activities) and in automatic body maintenance (blood pressure/heart rate) as an info-administrator in double senses, from the inferior to the superior direction of the brain and in a reverse order [28]. Analyzing now comparatively the operability of ACC and PCC in terms of ISHB/IMC, we have to observe that the two brain regions show an opposite, but synchronized activity: when ACC is active, the PCC is inactive and inversely.…”