Hugo Cornelis

Afference copy as a quantitative neurophysiological model for consciousness.

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience June 2014 Hugo Cornelis, Allan D Coop

Consciousness is a topic of considerable human curiosity with a long history of philosophical analysis and debate. We consider there is nothing particularly complicated about consciousness when viewed as a necessary process of the vertebrate nervous system. Here, we propose a physiological "explanatory gap" is created during each present moment by the temporal requirements of neuronal activity....