Trans/Form/Ação
April 9, 2019
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
Abstract: In prior work, we reported the followings: (i) There are about forty meanings attributed to the term consciousness. They were identified and categorized according to whether they were principally about function or about experience. (ii) The frameworks for consciousness that are based on materialism, idealism, and dualism have serious problems. Therefore, an extended dual-aspect monism...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
1 citation
During meditation, consciousness/awareness is usually enhanced because of higher attention and concentration, which inter-dependently co-arise thru appropriate interactions between neural signals. Nāgārjuna rejects ‘inherent existence’ or ‘essence’ in favor of co-dependent origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), and that is also why he rejects causality; the entities that lack inherent existence...
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
August 21, 2016
Alfredo Pereira, Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal, Massimo Pregnolato
7 citations
A solution to the Hard Problem formulated by Chalmers should include a biophysical nonreductive explanation of the qualities of conscious experience ( subjective qualia). This task is nearly impossible to be performed in the context of Modern Physics, since most influential scientists and philosophers conceived such qualities as being mental phenomena without a physical counterpart. We propose...
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
June 2010
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
We incorporate the dual-mode concept in our dual-aspect PE-SE (proto-experience-subjective experience) framework. The two modes are: (1) the non-tilde mode that is the physical (material) and mental aspect of cognition (memory and attention) related feedback signals in a neural-network, which refers to the cognitive nearest past approaching towards present; and (2) the tilde mode that is the...
NeuroQuantology
April 9, 2010
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
12 citations
Theory of everything must include consciousness. In this Part I of the series of three articles, we introduce the subjective experience (SE) and/or proto‐experience (PE) aspect of consciousness in classical physics, where PEs are precursors of SEs. In our dualaspect‐ dual‐mode PE‐SE framework, it was hypothesized that fundamental entities (strings or elementary particles: fermions and bosons)...
NeuroQuantology
September 1, 2009
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
18 citations
It was previously hypothesized that (1) strings or elementary particles have two aspects (material and mental) and are carriers of subjective experiences (SEs)/proto-experiences (PEs) aspect of consciousness in their mental aspect in superimposed form (Vimal, 2008: J Integr Neurosci, 7(1), 49-73) and (2) a specific SE is selected by the matching and selection processes in a neural-net (Vimal,...
Nature Precedings
September 10, 2008
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
5 citations
Abstract The investigation of subjective experiences (SEs) of space and time is at the core of consciousness research. The term ‘space’ includes the subject and objects. The SE of subject, I-ness, is defined as ‘Self’. The SEs of objects, subject’s external body, and subject’s internal states such as feelings, thoughts, and so on can be investigated using the proto-experience (PE)-SE framework....
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
March 1, 2008
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
Deterministic reductive monism and non-reductive substance dualism are two opposite views for consciousness, and both have serious problems. An alternative view is needed. For this, we hypothesize that strings or elementary particles (fermions and bosons) have two aspects: (i) elemental proto-experiences (PEs) as phenomenal aspect, and (ii) mass, charge, and spin as material aspect. Elemental...
Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences
February 1, 2008
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
19 citations
Attention is central to many functions such as vision, emotion, reward, working memory and access awareness. However, it is not clear how attention interacts with emotion and how to separate them. We report that (1) Visual attention is a (reentrant) neural signal that enhances the feed-forward stimulus-related signal by modulating it. (2) Emotion is feeling related affective subjective...
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
December 2007
Angela Alessia Bruzzo, Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
In this article, we establish a model to delineate the emergence of "self" in the brain making recourse to the theory of chaos. Self is considered as the subjective experience of a subject. As essential ingredients of subjective experiences, our model includes wakefulness, re-entry, attention, memory, and proto-experiences. The stability as stated by chaos theory can potentially describe the...