...Ángel García-Baños Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the formulation of a theory of consciousness based only on computational processes. In this manner, sound computational explanations of qualia and the “hard problem” of consciousness are provided in response to a lack of physical...

...Lance Nizami Purpose In the last half-century, individual sensory neurons have been bestowed with characteristics of the whole human being, such as behavior and its oft-presumed precursor, consciousness. This anthropomorphization is pervasive in the literature. It is also absurd, given what we...

..., consciousness and imagination. Figure 2. Basic building block for CFS The CFS conceptual framework agrees with the suggestion by Mountcastle (1978) that “all the brain might be performing basically the same algorithm, the result being different only depending on the inputs” (Mendes...

... and objective of the shari’ah (maqasid as-shari’ah) (Choudhury, 2011). Professor Masudul Alam Choudhury can be contacted at: masudc60@yahoo.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Causality Creativity Consciousness Biocybernetics Autopoiesis Complexity In the heterodox field...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Kent C Myers Purpose – Pursue Gregory Bateson’s observation that human consciousness as we see it today is tightly focussed on finding and pursuing purposes. Taken too far, the wider world of nature suffers...

..., psychology, and consciousness studies. Findings – The high-level functional organization of the brain involves adaptive cybernetic, goal-seeking, switching, and steering mechanisms embedded in percept-action-environment loops. The cerebral cortex is conceived as a network of reciprocally connected, re...

... a purpose” Stanislavski grounded his System in the admonition that, for any given scene, rather than planning and preparing behavior, gestures, and intonations to be consciously executed, each actor must choose an “objective” or “intention” (appropriate to the author’s text) demanding a specific response...

... by multi-causality dynamics in the social context. On such an issue of the individual ethical embedding in social ethos in recent annals of historical consciousness we have the message from Rousseau’s (1968)  Social Contract. Rousseau defined social contract as an act of shared preferences...

.... impetus of life over death) and more complex symbolic differentials (in a Leibnizian/Deleuzian sense) as necessary for the emergence of complex human meaning systems in consonance with thermodynamic and ecological imperatives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Language Consciousness...

... of all multidimensional relations of variables and systems defined by them. Yet the dynamic evolutionary learning nature of systemic interactions needs to chart the history of the future to predict, guide and explain reconstruction and change. Such attributes reveal inner consciousness that is embedded...

...Mian‐yun Chen; Yi Lin; Hejing Xiong; Alex M. Andrew Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review machine consciousness (MC) and machine modelling of consciousness (MMC) with acknowledgement that their study may contribute to understanding of biological consciousness. The death of Peter Fellgett...

...Brennig James © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Consciousness Neural networks Brain An EMI theory of consciousness Keywords: Consciousness, Neural networks, Brain Editor's note: Communications and forum contributions are not sent to referees and consequently...

...Brennig James Considers a view of the “whole picture” by interpreting the physical world using three parameters. Looks at consciousness as a function of the brain and examines its characteristics. Discusses the importance of vision as an input to the brain. The physical world may be described...

... out to be extremely successful, specialized in the weighing of uncertainty and making creative associations between different objects. Several quite reasonable perspectives nevertheless state that consciousness has a strong survival value. To define why it has that value is however, very difficult...