So you can't offer an explanation for your version of mind?
As for me, did you not read what I said....that it isn't understood how the brain forms mind/consciousness?
That based on the available evidence it is quite clear that the brain is the generator of mind/consciousness. Which is not according to me, but the position that the majority of neuro-scientists hold.
One hypotheses being that consciousness is a property of patterns of firing being fed information from surrounding structures, enabling sense experience and associated feelings, thoughts and actions.
If you have something better, please, let's see your version of the nature, origin, function and relationship between mind and brain.
Do you not understand the questions? Can you not read them?
Your questions are bogus. Bogus because you ignore what I actually say and just repeat questions that have no relationship whatsoever to what I have said all along.
All it requires is a one sentence answer.
Is consciousness the brain? Is it brain activity? Or is it something that arises out of brain activity?
Why don't you address what I said about that instead of asking the question again. It's not a one sentence reply because it's more complicated than that.
So for the hundredth time, it is not understood how the brain forms conscious experience, mind, thought, etc, but based on the evidence we have, it is clear that it is the brain that is forming mind whilst in an awake state and responding to sensory information or memory based reflections.
That is the answer. Deal with that. Don't repeat your strawman questions.
So it is something that arises from brain activity? You are as clear as mud.
I've already said that it mind is thought to be an attribute of neural activity, therefore mind is an experience formed from that activity. Deal with what I say. Don't repeat questions while ignoring the replies.
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'Consciousness, as William James pointed out, is not a thing, but a process or stream that is changing on a time scale of fractions of seconds (1). As he emphasized, a fundamental aspect of the stream of consciousness is that it is highly unified or integrated. Integration is a property shared by every conscious experience irrespective of its specific content: Each conscious state comprises a single "scene" that cannot be decomposed into independent components (5). Integration is best appreciated by considering the impossibility of conceiving of a conscious scene that is not integrated, that is, one which is not experienced from a single point of view. A striking demonstration is given by split-brain patients performing a spatial memory task in which two independent sequences of visuospatial positions were presented, one to the left and one to the right hemisphere. In these patients, each hemisphere perceived a separate, simple visual problem and the subjects were able to solve the double task well. Normal subjects could not treat the two independent visual sequences as independent, parallel tasks. Instead, they combined the visual information into a single conscious scene and into a single, large problem that was much more difficult to solve.
In summary: Conventional approaches to understanding consciousness are generally concerned with the contribution of specific brain areas or groups of neurons. By contrast, the authors consider what kinds of neural processes can account for key properties of conscious experience. Applying measures of neural integration and complexity, together with an analysis of extensive neurological data, leads to a testable proposal -- the dynamic core hypothesis -- about the properties of the neural substrate of consciousness.''
Thalamocortical, Reticular, and Limbic systems.
Limbic or emotional networks simultaneously coordinate behavioral, autonomic, and endocrine adjustments required to maintain cellular homeostasis. Bonding, feeding, reproductive, fightor-
flight behaviors are accompanied by specific change in neurohormonal output
and autonomic discharge rates to the heart, immune system, and other viscera.
There are two triggering stimuli, which I mentioned earlier, that trigger emotional and visceral reactions. One is social environmental cues. Social environmental cues induce emotional and visceral reactions. And physiological stress, for
xample, asphyxia triggers visceral and emotional reactions. So in essence, the entire network serves as a large memory bank, learning from memory of previous experiences, and then reacting appropriately or inappropriately.
The insular cortex, orbital frontal, and mesocortex are activated by transient asphyxiation, by hypoglycemia, by hypothermic stress, and by electrolyte volume imbalances; and also by changes in arterial blood pressure. The mesocortex
receives its information from the viscera down below the board by way of the thalamus. The thalamus projects information to the mesocortex, which influences development of the cognitive neocortex by virtue of its reciprocity—its reciprocal interconnections. These structures form a closed reciprocally interconnected neurohumerally modulated loop involved in learning, memory, and conditioning''
The mesocortex is the perceptual and coding mechanism. It perceives information, especially information from the internal milieu, by way of connections with the visceral associational
areas. The activator of adaptive or maladaptive behaviors.''
How many times will you dodge this and provide evidence you have no serious position here?
I'm not the one dodging. How many times have you been asked to provide a description of your own model of mind/consciousness? Too many times.....and the result? Nothing, zilch, zip, nada.
It's clear that you have nothing to offer.
