• Figure 1: The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are the minimal set of neural events and structures - here synchronized action potentials in neocortical pyramidal neurons - sufficient for a specific conscious percept or a conscious (explicit) memory . (scholarpedia.org)
  • My old friend and colleague, the late Francis Crick, and I coined a term for these fascinating processes: neuronal correlates of consciousness, or NCCs--the set of firings among neurons that correlates with each bit of awareness that we experience. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Based on Tomkins' affect and script theory (2008b,1995a), the affect consciousness model posits that affect, along with pain, homeostatic life, support processes, and the cyclical drives, constitute the primary motivating forces in all human affairs. (wikipedia.org)
  • This paper seeks to examine the phenomenal nature of consciousness and elucidate a possible biophysical basis for its existence, in terms of a form of quantum anticipation based on entangled states driven by chaotic sensitivity of global brain states during decision-making processes. (dhushara.com)
  • The authors reveal that these differential effects are driven by two discrete processes working in opposition: goal satiation drives licensing in the case of less environmentally conscious consumers, and prosocial self-perceptions drive reinforcement among highly conscious consumers. (uky.edu)
  • The term "affect" can be taken to indicate an instinctual reaction to stimulation occurring before the typical cognitive processes considered necessary for the formation of a more complex emotion. (wikidoc.org)
  • Affect-based judgments and cognitive processes have been examined with noted differences indicated, and some argue affect and cognition are under the control of separate and partially independent systems that can influence each other in a variety of ways ( Zajonc , 1980). (wikidoc.org)
  • Will the Neural Correlates of Consciousness involve all pyramidal neurons in cortex at any given point in time? (scholarpedia.org)
  • But declaring that consciousness simply 'emerges' when enough has accumulated, doesn't really explain how first person experience is implemented by neurons. (researchgate.net)
  • The canonical view of how general anesthetics induce loss-of-consciousness (LOC) permitting pain-free surgery posits that anesthetic molecules, distributed throughout the CNS, suppress neural activity globally to levels at which the cerebral cortex can no longer sustain conscious experience. (researchgate.net)
  • The mesopontine tegmental anesthesia area (MPTA) was identified in rats as a singular brainstem locus at which microinjection of minute quantities of GABAergic agents rapidly and reversibly induces loss-of-consciousness and a state of general anesthesia, while lesioning renders animals insensitive to anesthetics at normal systemic doses. (researchgate.net)
  • General anesthetic agents are thought to induce loss-of-consciousness (LOC) and enable pain-free surgery by acting on the endogenous brain circuitry responsible for sleep-wake cycling. (researchgate.net)
  • The patient then breathes in a mixture of gases through the face mask until loss of consciousness occurs. (asa.org.au)
  • Brain scientists are exploiting a number of empirical approaches to shed light on the neural basis of consciousness. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Abstract: The nature and physical basis of consciousness remains the central enigma of the scientific description of reality in the third millennium. (dhushara.com)
  • browser were( format self-consciousness) have yet so given effect. (kir.jp)
  • He possessed and possesses qualities that in discrete doses are more or less tolerable, but at his level of concentration produce a phenomenal effect. (nplusonemag.com)
  • Discrete neuropathologic features are described in PSE but these may represent an epiphenomena (a secondary effect occurring with the disease). (medscape.com)
  • Most incoming data and the vast majority of the combinatorial possibilities of behavior are discarded: I argue that what we experience as consciousness is partly epiphenomena of this search-and-prune routine, and partly the adaptive exploitation of selective feedback located right at the heart of the issues of intelligence, learning, health, and purposive behavior. (bartholomy.ooo)
  • A science of consciousness must strive to explain the exact relationship between phenomenal, mental states and brain states. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Every phenomenal, subjective state will have associated Neural Correlates of Consciousness: one for seeing a red patch, another one for seeing grandmother, yet a third one for hearing a siren, etc. (scholarpedia.org)
  • At low levels these scales indicate poor awareness and recognition of affects, a tendency for being overwhelmed by, unable to cope with and unable to decode meaningful information from affect activation, along with disavowal and shutdown of bodily expressive acts and inability to articulate and express semantic descriptions of affective experience. (wikipedia.org)
  • At intermediate levels affects are stably recognized and accepted, and both bodily expressive acts and semantic articulation of experience are generally acknowledged. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perturbing or inactivating the Neural Correlates of Consciousness for any one specific conscious experience will affect the percept or cause it to disappear. (scholarpedia.org)
  • If the Neural Correlates of Consciousness could be induced artificially, for instance by cortical microstimulation in a prosthetic device or during neurosurgery, the subject would experience the associated percept. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Microdosing offers a more subtle effect of psilocybin, and our products have been carefully selected to enhance your experience. (hollandshigh.com)
  • Whether you're seeking creativity, well-being, or expanded consciousness, microdosing can be a life-enhancing experience. (hollandshigh.com)
  • Whether you seek to improve your creativity, nurture your well-being, or expand your consciousness, microdosing has the potential to be a life altering experience. (hollandshigh.com)
  • He claims that reducing consciousness (as we experience it) to a functional mechanism will never solve the hard problem. (evphil.com)
  • His work has not been without controversy, yet he has substantially affected the ongoing conversations regarding consciousness and the experience of being. (patheos.com)
  • A unitive experience involves the eradication of a sense of multiple discrete entities, and the cognitive significance of the experience is deemed to lie precisely in that phenomenological feature. (stanford.edu)
  • A super sense-perceptual mode of experience may accompany sense-perception as in the cases of "nature mysticism" or "cosmic consciousness" (Bucke 1901), as when, for example, a person has an awareness of God while watching a setting sun. (stanford.edu)
  • Affect , like the adjective affective , refers to the experience of feeling or emotion . (wikidoc.org)
  • Now, applying this principle in an ontological sense, it follows that the Consciousness of the original Fullness can only be aroused by first passing through the experience of 'absence' or 'emptiness', in some degree. (realization.org)
  • Is consciousness a seamless experience or a string of fleeting images, like frames of a movie? (scientificamerican.com)
  • These four abilities are operationalized as degrees of awareness, tolerance, emotional (nonverbal) expression, and conceptual (verbal) expression of each of the following eleven affect categories: Interest/Excitement Enjoyment/Joy Fear/Panic Anger/Rage Shame/Humiliation Contempt/Condescension Disgust/Revulsion Sadness/Despair Envy/Jealousy Guilt/Remorse Tenderness/Care The Affect Consciousness Interview (ACI) (Monsen et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ACI evaluates the individual's awareness, tolerance, emotional expression, and conceptual expression of each of the affect categories are evaluated using a nine-point Affect Consciousness Scale (ACS), with the most current version containing eleven affect categories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Finally, high levels are characterized by capacity for focused and flexible awareness of nuances specific to different contexts and affect intensities, distinct openness to affective activation and its motivating and regulating functions, along with explicit reflection about the information inherent in the affect with its meanings and consequences for one's understanding of both self and others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consciousness has been defined loosely as a constellation of attributes of mind such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, and the ability to perceive a relationship between oneself and one's environment. (dhushara.com)
  • We are assuming that you intend all dimensions of consciousness or densities of awareness in this question. (lawofone.info)
  • Consciousness is the sense of awareness about existence, existence of the self and that of perceived external entities. (wikidot.com)
  • Thus the active, concrete, and perceptual consciousness is to be viewed as an arousal of specific awareness through a partial blanking-out of the full and perfectly balanced consciousness of the Primordial State. (realization.org)
  • Todd Moody [notes that] although "it is true that zombies who grew up in our midst might become glib in the use of our language, including our philosophical talk about consciousness [and other mentalistic concepts], a world of zombies could not originate these exact concepts. (evphil.com)
  • There is often a complaint that today the world has lost all philosophical or religious consciousness and that there is no receptivity to higher values. (dlshq.org)
  • The work is more engaging when the live body works actively with projection or is chewed up and reintegrated into image, as in the opening sequence of Pascoe's face multiplied and affected by her own reprocessed presence. (realtimearts.net)
  • That is, trains of spikes in Purkinje cells (or their absence) will not induce a sensory percept although they may ultimately affect some behaviors (such as eye movements ). (scholarpedia.org)
  • The word also refers sometimes to affect display , which is "a facial, vocal, or gestural behavior that serves as an indicator of affect. (wikidoc.org)
  • If consciousness exists as a complex feature of biological systems, then its adaptive value is likely relevant to explaining its evolutionary origin, though of course its present function, if it has one, need not be the same now as when it first arose. (evphil.com)
  • Protention Each of these three stages was unusual: pretention arose at the prehistoric level of the consciousness making, the primal run was that of the tranquillity of the attended stimulus, and protention involved a buffered memory of the affair, as described already in the book. (daubnet.com)
  • A divergence from a narrow reinforcement model for emotion allows for other perspectives on how affect influences emotional development. (wikidoc.org)
  • As an example, the temperament of a highly reactive/low self-soothing infant may "disproportionately" affect the process of emotion regulation in the early months of life (Griffiths, 1997). (wikidoc.org)
  • Film database, emotion elicitation, discrete emotions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Affect consciousness (or affect integration - a more generic term for the same phenomenon) refers to an individual's ability to consciously perceive, tolerate, reflect upon, and express affects. (wikipedia.org)
  • A number of authors and theoretical traditions inspired the development of the AC-construct, most notably Silvan Tomkins' Basic Affect Theory, Script Theoretical formulations and differential emotions theory (Izard, 1977, 1991). (wikipedia.org)
  • A person with a low level of affect consciousness is expected to be unable to make sense of both his or her own feelings and the emotions of others and to have difficulties attributing causes for his or her own and others' behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lazarus, 1982) consider affect to be post-cognitive. (wikidoc.org)
  • That is, affect is thought to be elicited only after a certain amount of cognitive processing of information has been accomplished. (wikidoc.org)
  • In relation to perception, a type of non-conscious affect may be separate from the cognitive processing of environmental stimuli. (wikidoc.org)
  • Consciousness is a localized resonance, achieved via projection of a subset of a richly-connected high-dimensional structure onto a low dimensional space, which when applied as feedback to the generative unconscious computational network, selectively amplifies its own preimage. (bartholomy.ooo)
  • Apperceptive consciousness is a surjective transformation function operating on sensory input, whose purpose is to establish selective resonance with its own preimage, such that the coherence of the unconscious structure is improved. (bartholomy.ooo)
  • Bachmann believes that consciousness for any one sensation takes time, comparable to the development of a photograph. (scientificamerican.com)
  • End or emergence phase: The anaesthetist stops giving you the anaesthetic drugs, allows them to wear off, and/or gives you other drugs to reverse their effects, so that you regain consciousness or sensation. (asa.org.au)
  • I will examine how the film treats the obsession of the punk scene - and the increasingly postmodern world - with surfaces, images, artifice, and the act of looking (the gaze) and how this emphasis on superficial modes of understanding affect how history is interpreted and constructed. (kersplebedeb.com)
  • Both affect and cognition may constitute independent sources of effects within systems of information processing. (wikidoc.org)
  • Bolton, Lisa E. / Eco-product choice cuts both ways : How proenvironmental licensing versus reinforcement is contingent on environmental consciousness . (uky.edu)
  • They are the eternal sounds of the unmanifest, abstract field of consciousness, the Unified Field, that were cognized by the great Vedic Rishis, Dr Morris said. (globalgoodnews.com)
  • And if we are trying to do so for a general definition of consciousness that applies across all organisms, then we have an even bigger set of possibilities that needs to encompass all of the evolutionary history of life. (evphil.com)
  • 2. A common way to express this difficulty is to ask what life would be like without consciousness? (evphil.com)
  • It is the fond hope of the Swamiji that this unique example set forth by the Allahabad University in feeling the necessity to work for rousing in the minds of students a consciousness of the Higher Life be emulated by the other Universities also. (dlshq.org)
  • Likewise, when a long-continued period of bodily pain has ceased, there is then a concrete consciousness of well-being such as did not exist before the pain. (realization.org)
  • Furthermore, the integration of specific affects have been shown to have distinct and predictable relationships with various types of relational problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Affect integration (operationalized through Affect Consciousness constructs and measured with the ACI and ACS) at different levels shows a stable correlation of psychopathology and psychological dysfunction such as symptom severity, interpersonal problems, personality disorder traits, and general functioning. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general, it affects about 1 in 7,000 pharmacie en ligne france births. (terminally-incoherent.com)
  • Start or induction phase: In the case of a general anaesthetic the anaesthetist gives you the drugs that make you lose consciousness, or he or she performs the nerve block that makes part of you numb (as in a spinal or an epidural). (asa.org.au)
  • The Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) can be defined as the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept (Crick & Koch 1990). (scholarpedia.org)
  • Consciousness is a puzzling, state-dependent property of certain types of complex , biological, adaptive, and highly interconnected systems. (scholarpedia.org)
  • You are going to have her eyes fixed over my shoulder were being affected by the impulse to satisfy equivalence with a morbid preoccupation as death, these wholeclass conversations happen several times before a big state university. (gretchenwegner.com)
  • Is our perception really as continuous as it seems, or is it divided into discrete time parcels, similar to frames in a movie? (scientificamerican.com)
  • In my last post , I reiterated my concept of consciousness as involving living organisms, governed by the laws of natural and sexual selection, sensing and responding to biological forces. (evphil.com)
  • So what we provide to the plant in the environment has a very powerful effect on what the plant becomes as it grows,' said Dr Morris. (globalgoodnews.com)
  • However the configuration and size of the space creates a static, seated environment, requiring the audience to concentrate for 2 hours on streams of video consciousness. (realtimearts.net)
  • Zombie thought experiments highlight the need to explain why consciousness evolved and what function(s) it serves. (evphil.com)
  • in contrast, the histological study revealed multiple and bilateral thrombo-embolisms affecting small distal arteries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Through pain the joy-consciousness of health was aroused to recognition. (realization.org)
  • In the face of the apparent causality of the Laplacian universe, many 20th century philosophers assigned to consciousness the orphan status of an epiphenomenon, a mere reflection of physical reality which could have no influence upon it. (dhushara.com)
  • See my more recent article Space, Time and Consciousness Mar 2014 for a more recent perspective on emerging research in the same area. (dhushara.com)
  • But in my reflecting upon the idea that this universe of things is derived from and dependent upon a primordial plenum, it suddenly struck me that in the midst of the bare and original fullness there could be nothing to arouse discrete or concrete consciousness. (realization.org)
  • Since a review of the functions of consciousness can quickly get unwieldy, I'm going to write it in a way that helps us (i.e. me) hold onto the thread of the plot. (evphil.com)
  • Both mind and consciousness present a varied array of associated words and concepts, which we need to clarify, to even begin to close in on the central enigma, which the terms present to us. (dhushara.com)
  • The guitar work often brings to mind Manuel G ttsching, but he often played his guitar more in the style of a sitar, in an attempt to create a droning effect. (progarchives.com)
  • 1. Naming an evolved function for consciousness has proven to be very difficult and there is no widely accepted position on this. (evphil.com)