What is it about?
The lack of a physical explanation for what consciousness is, what our thoughts, memories, and imaginings constantly rolling through our minds are, pushes us towards seeking transcendental, mystical, or dualistic explanations. We can't settle for philosophical discussion of various aspects of consciousness. We must present neurological and biophysical hypotheses that will enable us to understand how the material brain can generate subjective experiences felt from a first-person perspective. Unsatisfactory results from previous investigations have stemmed from the fact that the concept of consciousness encompasses many diverse manifestations of consciousness, while attempts were made to find a single algorithm, a single construction, and a single process that could explain all these phenomena. It turns out that explaining them requires at least two different neurological processes and proposing their cooperation in order to elucidate the richness of mental life.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how the human psyche is formed will push psychology towards intensive development. It will allow for a better interpretation of the imaging of the work of individual brain areas. It will allow for more precise localization of nerve impulse pathways between specialized brain lobes and the rest of the body. The presented model of the brain creating phenomenal consciousness will end the convulsions of dualism and various versions of panpsychism. Ultimately, doubts will be dispelled as to how it is possible that our consciousness exhibits features of epiphenomenalism, making us doubt the causative power of our thoughts, and at the same time may show full capacity for deliberation and decision-making. Is this how the Mind-Brain Identity Theory is Confirmed? It seems so, as you can read about in the next article with the above title
Perspectives
Understanding how the material structure of the brain can create subjective emotional sensations, qualia, and phenomenal consciousness gave rise to the idea that artificial material beings could also possess these extraordinary attributes. Cooperation with an artificial intelligence specialist, Professor Janusz Starzyk, led to the writing of a book on the subject entitled "Reductive Model of the Conscious Mind", in which we prove that robots can also have subjective feelings. It would be breaking another threshold, when artificial intelligence would become an equal partner for us. Unfortunately, such a state is not stable, and therefore it should be expected that it will leave us far behind robots in the future
Dr Wieslaw Ludwik Galus
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This page is a summary of: Different aspects of consciousness explained by distinct biophysical processes., Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, August 2023, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/teo0000236.
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