Consciousness and the structuring property of typical data

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2012-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/1203.3113v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

11 pages, 5 figures, submitted for publication March 2012

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The theoretical base for consciousness, in particular an explanation of how consciousness is defined by the brain, has long been sought by science. In this paper we propose a theory of consciousness as relations defined by typical data. The theory is based on the idea that a brain state on its own is almost meaningless but in the context of the typical brain states, defined by the brain's structure, a particular brain state is highly structured by relations. Whilst the proposed theory may not be a complete candidate for the theoretical base of consciousness it does provide well defined founding principles that can be applied and tested both theoretically and experimentally. Precisely how typical data determines relations is fully established using discrete mathematics. It is suggested that the Bienenstock, Cooper and Munro version of Hebbian theory, as well as the thalamus, plays an important part in how the brain defines typical data. If the theory is correct then it would arguably help to solve the binding problem.

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