Triple-aspect monism: Physiological, mental unconscious and conscious aspects of brain activity
Contribuinte(s) |
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
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Data(s) |
18/03/2015
18/03/2015
01/06/2014
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Resumo |
Brain activity contains three fundamental aspects: (a) The physiological aspect, covering all kinds of processes that involve matter and/or energy; (b) the mental unconscious aspect, consisting of dynamical patterns (i.e., frequency, amplitude and phase-modulated waves) embodied in neural activity. These patterns are variously operated (transmitted, stored, combined, matched, amplified, erased, etc), forming cognitive and emotional unconscious processes and (c) the mental conscious aspect, consisting of feelings experienced in the first-person perspective and cognitive functions grounded in feelings, as memory formation, selection of the focus of attention, voluntary behavior, aesthetical appraisal and ethical judgment. Triple-aspect monism (TAM) is a philosophical theory that provides a model of the relation of the three aspects. Spatially distributed neuronal dendritic potentials generate amplitude-modulated waveforms transmitted to the extracellular medium and adjacent astrocytes, prompting the formation of large waves in the astrocyte network, which are claimed to both integrate distributed information and instantiate feelings. According to the valence of the feeling, the large wave feeds back on neuronal synapses, modulating (reinforcing or depressing) cognitive and behavioral functions. |
Formato |
201-227 |
Identificador |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219635214400068 Journal Of Integrative Neuroscience. London: Imperial College Press, v. 13, n. 2, p. 201-227, 2014. 0219-6352 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/117218 10.1142/S0219635214400068 WOS:000340108600005 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Imperial College Press |
Relação |
Journal Of Integrative Neuroscience |
Direitos |
closedAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #Brain activity #neurophysiology #information #unconscious activity #conscious activity |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |