Stream of Consciousness

Dainton, Barry

doi:10.4324/9780203464571

Cited by 158 publications

(82 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…According to a conceptual point of view, it is the most fundamental ingredient of phenomenality of a mind: A unifying spatial 3D coordinate system 44 in which all phenomenal contents (hearing, seeing, touching, feeling, embodiment, moving, and thinking, etc., including 'self') must be embedded in order to be directly present in someone's subjective experience [72,[337][338][339]. The psychology literature offers compelling evidence that such volumetric subjective space is readily available in the mind [340][341][342] (see also below).…”

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several phenomenal qualities or objects that share the same phenomenal space and interrelate between one another must be present at the same time (see for a review [339]). This implies temporal presence: Subjective experience comes into existence at some point in time and it ceases to exist at some later point.…”

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such phenomenal world, as a momentary subjective (virtual) reality, is the total organization of simultaneously present phenomenal features (the complex global bundle), while the dynamics in this phenomenal world is expressed through the succession of this complex global bundle -both instantiating the phenomenal space-time (PST) [72,339,431].…”

Section: Phenomenal Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, we do not subjectively experience these postulated causal relations that connect the OST (located in IPST of the brain) with the consciousness contents presented in PST. What we experience is the end result of these causal relations -namely our own subjective (and transparent) sensations, images, and thoughts [72,339,371,378,388]. Below we will illustrate this functional isomorphism by relating the EEG structure with the structure of phenomenal consciousness.…”

Section: Integration Of Space-time Of Brain and Mind Through Unified mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet the opposite process is also possible, where complex OMs could be decomposed to simpler ones all the way down to the basic operations. Such decomposition would be responsible for a segmentation of our subjective experience and focused 76 conscious states [72,339]. Behavioral experiments where subjects are asked to concentrate their attention either on a complex scene or some part of it with parallel EEG registration (and OA analysis) could be used to verify this proposal.…”

Section: Figure 9 Schematic Illustration Of Operational Modules (Omsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

166

233

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system -the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in the brain. This space-time is limited to the execution of brain operations of differing complexity. During each such brain operation a particular short-term spatio-temporal pattern of integrated activity of different brain areas emerges within related operational space-time. At the same time, to have a fully functional human brain one needs to have a subjective mental experience. Current research on the subjective mental experience offers detailed analysis of space-time organization of the mind. According to this research, subjective mental experience (subjective virtual world) has definitive spatial and temporal properties similar to many physical phenomena. Based on systematic review of the propositions and tenets of brain and mind space-time descriptions, our aim in this review essay is to explore the relations between the two. To be precise, we would like to discuss the hypothesis that via the brain operational space-time the mind subjective space-time is connected to otherwise distant physical space-time reality.Key words: spatial, temporal, consciousness, cognition, operation, architectonics, EEG, field, metastability, physics, coordinative dynamics, self-organization, cortex.

show abstract

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Phenomenal Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integration Of Space-time Of Brain and Mind Through Unified mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Figure 9 Schematic Illustration Of Operational Modules (Omsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations