Organizational closure through regenerative signaling as a possible basis for conscious awareness
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience July 24, 2026 Peter Cariani, Janet M. Baker
Along the lines of neuronal global workspace theories, the paper hypothesizes that active neural signal regeneration in recurrent, re-entrant circuits could constitute an organizational basis for states of conscious awareness. In this view, brains are self-production systems that regenerate their own informational, signal states ("neural autopoiesis"). States of awareness themselves depend...