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An Introduction to Current Theories of Consciousness
(Crosspost from my blog) • • There are few academic lists of theories of consciousness (Doerig 2020) as well as some good blog post series about specific ideas (shout out to SelfAwarePatterns), but…
Conscious exotica
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience
Viewing the brain as a complex computer of simple neurons is insufficient to explain consciousness and cognition. A new paradigm is needed that considers the brain as a scale-invariant hierarchy, with quantum and classical processes occurring in cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons. Evidence shows that microtubules regulate specific firings of axonal branches and modulate membrane and synaptic activities. This new paradigm suggests that information processing for cognitive and conscious brain functions occurs in microtubules and involves both top-down and bottom-up regulation within the brain hierarchy. The precise mechanisms of consciousness may be most likely to reveal themselves in Layer V cortical pyramidal neurons, which have a large collection of mixed polarity microtubule networks.
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