Towards new concepts for a biological neuroscience of consciousness |
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Authors: | Camilo Miguel Signorelli Daniel Meling |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ;2.Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM U992, NeuroSpin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France ;3.Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ;4.Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | In the search for a sound model of consciousness, we aim at introducing new concepts: closure, compositionality, biobranes and autobranes. This is important to overcome reductionism and to bring life back into the neuroscience of consciousness. Using these definitions, we conjecture that consciousness co-arises with the non-trivial composition of biological closure in the form of biobranes and autobranes: conscious processes generate closed activity at various levels and are, in turn, themselves, supported by biobranes and autobranes. This approach leads to a non-reductionist biological and simultaneously phenomenological theory of conscious experience, giving new perspectives for a science of consciousness. Future works will implement experimental definitions and computational simulations to characterize these dynamical biobranes interacting. |
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Keywords: | Autopoiesis Autonomy Autobranes Biobranes Branes Consciousness Compositionality Models of Consciousness Metabolic Closure Organizational Closure |
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