To the Roots of the Sense of Self: Proposals for a Study on the Emergence of Body Awareness in Early Infancy Through a Deep Learning Method

Sarno, Alfonso Davide Di; Sperandeo, Raffaele; Leva, Giuseppina Di; Fabbricino, Irene; Moretto, Enrico; Dell'Orco, Silvia; Maldonato, Mauro

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-8950-4_37

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“…One could discuss the meaning of the unitary subject and its inner core that we define as Self at length. Without getting into such controversial territory [40], one could say that the Self emerges when the individual events produced by the brain obtain a sufficiently representative, coherent and cohesive form [41]. Under normal circumstances, we experience a structured world of distinct and ordered objects in space within significant spatial-temporal patterns, organized according to regularity and extramodal (colour, shape, etc.)…”

Section: Unitas Multiplexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unitas Multiplex. Biological architectures of consciousness

Maldonato¹,

Muzii²,

Bottone³

et al. 2020

Infocommunications journal

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The so-called Posthuman question -the birth of organisms generated by the encounter of biological and artificial entities (humanoid robots, cyborgs and so on)is now on the agenda of science and, more generally, of contemporary society. This is an issue of enormous importance, which not only poses ethical questions but also, and above all, methodological questions about how it will be achieved on a scientific plane. How such entities will be born and what their functions will be? For example, what kind of consciousness will they be equipped with, in view of the function of consciousness for distinguishing the Self from others, which is the foundation of the interactive life of relationships? Many scholars believe that rapid technological progress will lead to the emergence of organisms that will simulate the functions of the mind, learn from their experiences, decode real-world information, and plan their actions and choices based on their own values elaborated from vast amounts of data and metadata. In the not-too-distant future, it is believed that these entities will acquire awareness and, consequently, decisional freedom, and perhaps even their own unique morals. In this paper, we try to show that the path towards this goal cannot avoid clarification of the problems that neuroscience has ahead of it. These problems concern: a) the way in which consciousness comes about on the basis of well-defined brain processes; b) how it represents its own organization and not a simple brain function; c) how simultaneously contains multiple distinct contents, each with its own intentionality; d) how it expresses dynamic evolutionary relations and not a set of phenomena that may be isolated; e) finally, how its order is not rigidly hierarchical, but is supported by a multiplicity of horizontal levels, each of which is in structural and functional continuum with different phenomenal events. The empirical and theoretical research effort on this topic provides an intensive contribution to the development of IC Technologies.

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Section: Unitas Multiplexmentioning

confidence: 99%