Biology of consciousness

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Abstract

The Dynamic Core and Global Workspace hypotheses were independently put forward to provide mechanistic and biologically plausible accounts of how brains generate conscious mental content. The Dynamic Core proposes that reentrant neural activity in the thalamocortical system gives rise to conscious experience. Global Workspace reconciles the limited capacity of momentary conscious content with the vast repertoire of long-term memory. In this paper we show the close relationship between the two hypotheses. This relationship allows for a strictly biological account of phenomenal experience and subjectivity that is consistent with mounting experimental evidence. We examine the constraints on causal analyses of consciousness and suggest that there is now sufficient evidence to consider the design and construction of a conscious artifact. © 2011 Edelman, Gally and Baars.

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Edelman, G. M., Gally, J. A., & Baars, B. J. (2011). Biology of consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(JAN). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00004

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