Triple-aspect monism: Physiological, mental unconscious and conscious aspects of brain activity


Autoria(s): Pereira, Alfredo
Contribuinte(s)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Data(s)

18/03/2015

18/03/2015

01/06/2014

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