scholarly journals Declarative Consciousness for Reconstruction

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-129
Author(s):  
Leslie G Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Data Stream ◽  
Canonical Representation ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Functional Dependencies ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
New Information ◽  
Incremental Compilation ◽  
The Brain

Abstract Existing information technology tools are harnessed and integrated to provide digital specification of human consciousness of individual persons. An incremental compilation technology is proposed as a transformation of LifeLog derived persona specifications into a Canonical representation of the neocortex architecture of the human brain. The primary purpose is to gain an understanding of the semantical allocation of the neocortex capacity. Novel neocortex content allocation simulators with browsers are proposed to experiment with various approaches of relieving the brain from overload conditions. An IT model of the neocortex is maintained, which is then updated each time new stimuli are received from the LifeLog data stream; new information is gained from brain signal measurements; and new functional dependencies are discovered between live persona consumed/produced signals

Materialism or Nothing

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Cody
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Human Brain Project ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

Brain research is intended to produce valuable results in medicine and information technology. All to the good. Nevertheless, the contentions made by both the BRAIN Initiative and the Human Brain Project are not only unproven, but indefensible. Their most egregious error lies in a doctrinal misconception of what the mind does. The mind is a matter of memory, belief, intention, desire, will, and the like—mentalities.

2. The human brain

2017 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Susan Blackmore
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Motor Control ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
The Self ◽  
Central Processor ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Vast Network ◽  
Successful Science

‘The human brain’ considers the brain as a vast network of connections from which come our extraordinary abilities: perception, learning, memory, reasoning, language, and somehow or another—consciousness. Different areas deal with vision, hearing, speech, body image, motor control, and forward planning. They are all linked, but this is not done through one central processor, but by millions of criss-crossing connections. By contrast, human consciousness seems to be unified. A successful science of consciousness must therefore explain the contents of consciousness, the continuity of consciousness, and the self who is conscious. Research linking consciousness to brain function is discussed along with conditions such as synaesthesia, blindsight, stroke damage, and amnesia.

scholarly journals The Secrets of Consciousness and AI

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaden Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
New Information

Many generations of scientists have tried to understand the concept of consciousness and all its secrets. We can't really define which part of our brain really controls consciousness so it is a topic that most people can't wrap their heads around. The simplest definition I can give to this topic is "when a being is aware of their existence and can feel, they are conscious". I create a situation where we replicate the human brain using computer components to try and isolate or even create consciousness. The closest we have come to really creating a conscience is AI. If we can make our neurons into millions of wires and use many interesting software to replicate our memory would we have a truly self-aware being? Discovering all the secrets of consciousness would really benefit our world in nanotech, and solving world problems from another perspective. I bring together the idea of technology and neuroscience to create and discover new information about AI and how human consciousness works. The idea of transferring human consciousness into a robot would be a new upgraded AI that would solve problems like aging. We would be able to transfer our consciousness only when we can isolate and understand the source of consciousness.

scholarly journals Schema support for forming inferences in the human brain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Philippe Paulus ◽  
Carlo Vignali ◽  
Marc N Coutanche
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Medial Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Memory Integration ◽  
New Information ◽  
Neural Integration ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Memory Schema ◽  
The Brain

Associative inference, the process of drawing novel links between existing knowledge to rapidly integrate associated information, is supported by the hippocampus and neocortex. Within the neocortex, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in the rapid cortical learning of new information that is congruent with an existing framework of knowledge, or schema. How the brain integrates associations to form inferences, specifically how inferences are represented, is not well understood. In this study, we investigate how the brain uses schemas to facilitate memory integration in an associative inference paradigm (A-B-C-D). We conducted two event-related fMRI experiments in which participants retrieved previously learned direct (AB, BC, CD) and inferred (AC, AD) associations between word pairs for items that are schema congruent or incongruent. Additionally, we investigated how two factors known to affect memory, a delay with sleep, and reward, modulate the neural integration of associations within, and between, schema. Schema congruency was found to benefit the integration of associates, but only when retrieval immediately follows learning. RSA revealed that neural patterns of inferred pairs (AC) in the PHc, mPFC, and posHPC were more similar to their constituents (AB and BC) when the items were schema congruent, suggesting that schema facilitates the assimilation of paired items into a single inferred unit containing all associated elements. Furthermore, a delay with sleep, but not reward, impacted the assimilation of inferred pairs. Our findings reveal that the neural representations of overlapping associations are integrated into novel representations through the support of memory schema.

scholarly journals A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea I. Luppi ◽  
Pedro A.M. Mediano ◽  
Fernando E. Rosas ◽  
Judith Allanson ◽  
John D. Pickard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Loss Of Consciousness ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Integrated Information

AbstractA central goal of neuroscience is to understand how the brain synthesises information from multiple inputs to give rise to a unified conscious experience. This process is widely believed to require integration of information. Here, we combine information theory and network science to address two fundamental questions: how is the human information-processing architecture functionally organised? And how does this organisation support human consciousness? To address these questions, we leverage the mathematical framework of Integrated Information Decomposition to delineate a cognitive architecture wherein specialised modules interact with a “synergistic global workspace,” comprising functionally distinct gateways and broadcasters. Gateway regions gather information from the specialised modules for processing in the synergistic workspace, whose contents are then further integrated to later be made widely available by broadcasters. Through data-driven analysis of resting-state functional MRI, we reveal that gateway regions correspond to the brain’s well-known default mode network, whereas broadcasters of information coincide with the executive control network. Demonstrating that this synergistic workspace supports human consciousness, we further apply Integrated Information Decomposition to BOLD signals to compute integrated information across the brain. By comparing changes due to propofol anaesthesia and severe brain injury, we demonstrate that most changes in integrated information happen within the synergistic workspace. Furthermore, it was found that loss of consciousness corresponds to reduced integrated information between gateway, but not broadcaster, regions of the synergistic workspace. Thus, loss of consciousness may coincide with breakdown of information integration by this synergistic workspace of the human brain. Together, these findings demonstrate that refining our understanding of information-processing in the human brain through Integrated Information Decomposition can provide powerful insights into the human neurocognitive architecture, and its role in supporting consciousness.

Parietal and Occipital Lobe Syndromes

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
Shahzadi Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Occipital Lobe ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Occipital Lobes ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Complex Organ

The human brain is the most important as well as the most complex organ in the human body. From previous chapters, we by now know that the cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that functions to make human beings unique. Distinctly human traits including higher thought, language, and human consciousness as well as the ability to think, reason, and imagine all originate in the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the outermost portion that can be divided into the four lobes of the brain. Each bump on the surface of the brain is known as a gyrus, while each groove is known as a sulcus. In this chapter, the authors discuss the parietal and occipital lobes of the cortex. It then highlights their functional issues.

scholarly journals The integrated model of consciousness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Early Model ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
First Time ◽  
Advanced Model ◽  
The Brain

Consciousness is simple by definition, and complex by extension. For the first time we may have a look into some of the complexities of Human Consciousness, and how they may have accreted to core consciousness over millenia. From a Core Consciousness that can be traced to the Optical Tectum in early pre-amphibious ancestors, or even earlier in the evolutionary record, to an advanced model that includes at least 6 different sub-models, and grew from an early model of consciousness, we will see the accretion of layers of consciousness upon the basic core consciousness despite setbacks and variations in the evolution of the brain. Similar to some theories that make the mistake of Scala Naturae this theory shows a scale of elaboration that is not meant to reflect the pattern of evolution, merely a list of elaborations that has become standard within the human brain. It is not meant to be exhaustive, merely indicative of the complexity of consciousness as experienced by human beings. That the stages in development of the human brain make a track through time, is not meant to mean that in fact this track was as straight forward or simple as the model might suggest.

Prenatal Origin of Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy: How Often and Why?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1059-1062
Author(s):  
KARIN B. NELSON
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Development ◽  
Fetal Brain ◽  
New Information ◽  
Early Injury ◽  
Fetal Brain Development ◽  
Complicated Object ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
The Brain

"Consider what must be accomplished during the course of fetal brain development. In effect, in a few months the entire work of hundreds of millions of years of evolution must be reachieved. . . . Tens of billions of neurons must be born. . . . These new cells must find their way to their anatomical destinations, sometimes moving over substantial distances in an embryo that is constantly changing in form. . . Once the cell is fixed in place, the axon must find its way to its own destination. . . . They must not only get where they are going and make a connection, but they must avoid making any number of other connections that they might wrongly make in places they pass. Each nerve cell must develop one or more of at least a dozen neurotransmitters. . . ." The product of that miracle is the most complicated object in the known universe, a human brain. In this "Decade of the Brain," we can anticipate the emergence of a great deal more information about how the nervous system develops, prenatally and thereafter, and how and when that development can go awry. That information will come from laboratories, clinics, and nurseries. Neuroimaging of the infant brain, a subject now producing a rich harvest in journals of pediatrics, neurology, radiology, and obstetrics, will contribute important new information about the processes of brain development in our species, the timing of derailment from the normal course of brain development, and some aspects of pathogenesis. Neuropathology and the enormous flowering of new approaches in the basic and clinical neurosciences will help in explication of the mechanisms of maldevelopment and early injury. And we can hope that identification of mechanisms will allow us to develop strategies to prevent at least some of the problems leading to prenatal damage of the developing human brain.

New Information Technology Tools for a Medical Command System for Mass Decontamination

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Fuse ◽  
Tetsu Okumura ◽  
Jun Hagiwara ◽  
Tomohide Tanabe ◽  
Reo Fukuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Communication Network ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Camera System ◽  
Transmission Delays ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
New Information ◽  
Control Command

AbstractIn a mass decontamination during a nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) response, the capability to command, control, and communicate is crucial for the proper flow of casualties at the scene and their subsequent evacuation to definitive medical facilities. Information Technology (IT) tools can be used to strengthen medical control, command, and communication during such a response. Novel IT tools comprise a vehicle-based, remote video camera and communication network systems.During an on-site verification event, an image from a remote video camera system attached to the personal protective garment of a medical responder working in the warm zone was transmitted to the on-site Medical Commander for aid in decision making. Similarly, a communication network system was used for personnel at the following points: (1) the on-site Medical Headquarters; (2) the decontamination hot zone; (3) an on-site coordination office; and (4) a remote medical headquarters of a local government office. A specially equipped, dedicated vehicle was used for the on-site medical headquarters, and facilitated the coordination with other agencies.The use of these IT tools proved effective in assisting with the medical command and control of medical resources and patient transport decisions during a mass-decontamination exercise, but improvements are required to overcome transmission delays and camera direction settings, as well as network limitations in certain areas.FuseA, OkumuraT, HagiwaraJ, TanabeT, FukudaR, MasunoT, MimuraS, YamamotoK, YokotaH. New Information Technology tools for a medical command system for mass decontamination. Prehosp Disaster Med.2013;28(3):1-3.

scholarly journals The integrated model of consciousness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Early Model ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
First Time ◽  
Advanced Model ◽  
The Brain

Consciousness is simple by definition, and complex by extension. For the first time we may have a look into some of the complexities of Human Consciousness, and how they may have accreted to core consciousness over millenia. From a Core Consciousness that can be traced to the Optical Tectum in early pre-amphibious ancestors, or even earlier in the evolutionary record, to an advanced model that includes at least 6 different sub-models, and grew from an early model of consciousness, we will see the accretion of layers of consciousness upon the basic core consciousness despite setbacks and variations in the evolution of the brain. Similar to some theories that make the mistake of Scala Naturae this theory shows a scale of elaboration that is not meant to reflect the pattern of evolution, merely a list of elaborations that has become standard within the human brain. It is not meant to be exhaustive, merely indicative of the complexity of consciousness as experienced by human beings. That the stages in development of the human brain make a track through time, is not meant to mean that in fact this track was as straight forward or simple as the model might suggest.

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