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Scientific Advances on Consciousness

verfasst von : Yinsheng Zhang

Erschienen in: Brain Informatics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The article summarizes scientific advances on consciousness up to the present (the year 2017). The remarkable milestones of experimental research on consciousness, in particular those in response to some philosophic meanings, are selected. These chosen achievements are within more than half centuries and narrowed on five fields: (1) modeling consciousness, (2) analysis on consciousness quantum indeterminacy, (3) finding core-consciousness-function cells, (4) brain-machine interface, (5) brain research plans on brain information access and analysis with large-scale. The main conclusions cover that (1) Piaget consciousness model (PCM), which asserts that consciousness is the homomorphism between functional cells and their mapped objects in respective laws of motion, is a universal frame defining the consciousness in philosophic, scientific ways; (2) Receptive Field, Place Cell and Grid Cell, and some functional brain cells which specially make decisions are PCM instances; (3) consciousness has not been confirmed to be related to quantum states, but some tentative plans to be confirmed have been suggested; (4) brain-machine interface shows PCM too by physical or artificial ways. Meanwhile, some important data, analog or relevant technologies about the above achievements are described, and philosophic explanations are tried to be given.

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Metadaten
Titel
Scientific Advances on Consciousness
verfasst von
Yinsheng Zhang
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70772-3_26