arXiv Preprint ArchiveOctober 21, 2026Terrence W. Deacon, Miguel Garcia-Valdecasas, Michael Jacob
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Most neuroscientific accounts of consciousness assume that conscious experience is constituted by the information conveyed between neurons. The physical-chemical details of the metabolic and physiological processes that convey this information are correspondingly presumed to be relevant only insofar as they support the organization of information processes. We describe an alternative...
The brain is a living organ with distinct metabolic constraints. However, these constraints are typically considered as secondary or supportive of information processing which is primarily performed by neurons. The default operational definition of neural information processing is that (1) it is ultimately encoded as a change in individual neuronal firing rate as this correlates with the...