To set the stage for viewing Consciousness in terms of brain phase space\ndynamics and criticality, I will first review currently prominent theoretical\nconceptualizations and, where appropriate, identify ill-advised and flawed\nnotions in Theoretical Neuroscience that may impede viewing Consciousness as a\nphenomenon in Physics. I will furthermore introduce relevant facts that tend\nnot to...
To set the stage for viewing Consciousness in terms of brain phase space dynamics and criticality, I will first review currently prominent theoretical conceptualizations and, where appropriate, identify ill-advised and flawed notions in Theoretical Neuroscience that may impede viewing Consciousness as a phenomenon in Physics. I will furthermore introduce relevant facts that tend not to receive...
This theoretical and speculative essay addresses a categorical distinction between neural events of sensory-motor cognition and those presumably associated with consciousness. It proposes to view this distinction in the framework of the branch of Statistical Physics currently referred to as Modern Critical Theory (Stanley, Introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena, 1987; Marro...