Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2026
Alexander A Fingelkurts, Andrew A Fingelkurts
This study investigated the intraindividual stability and reliability of the three core aspects of the Selfhood triumvirate ('Self', 'Me', and 'I') as well as their mutual relationship (the Selfhood triumvirate configuration/pattern) by measuring the within-subjects reproducibility of functional integrity within three operational modules (OMs) of the brain's self-referential network (SRN), each...
Brain Sciences
June 13, 2025
Alexander A Fingelkurts, Andrew A Fingelkurts
2 citations
In this conceptual review, we explore how alterations in the configuration and expression of the three core aspects of experiential Selfhood-'Self,' 'Me', and 'I'-both reflect and shape an individual's susceptibility to neuropsychopathology. Drawing on empirical neurophenomenological evidence and theoretical insights, we examine a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders through the lens...
Brain Sci
May 17, 2023
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
9 citations
Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: Are They Nonconscious, Unconscious, or Subconscious? Expanding the Discussion.
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
February 1, 2023
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
Medical well-regarded policy recommendations for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are almost exclusively relied on behavioural examination and evaluation of higher-order cognition, and largely disregard the patients’ self. This is so because practically establishing the presence of self-awareness or Selfhood is even more challenging than evaluating the presence of consciousness....
Cogn Neurodyn
September 17, 2021
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Tarja Kallio-Tamminen
51 citations
Self, Me and I in the repertoire of spontaneously occurring altered states of Selfhood: eight neurophenomenological case study reports.
Consciousness and Cognition
November 1, 2020
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Tarja Kallio-Tamminen
41 citations
Recently, a three-dimensional construct model for complex experiential Selfhood has been proposed (Fingelkurts, Fingelkurts, & Kallio-Tamminen, 2016b,c). According to this model, three specific subnets (or modules) of the brain self-referential network (SRN) are responsible for the manifestation of three aspects/features of the subjective sense of Selfhood. Follow up multiple studies...
Cognitive processing
February 1, 2016
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Tarja Kallio-Tamminen
Using theoretical analysis of self-consciousness concept and experimental evidence on the brain default mode network (DMN) that constitutes the neural signature of self-referential processes, we hypothesized that the anterior and posterior subnets comprising the DMN should show differences in their integrity as a function of meditation training. Functional connectivity within DMN and its...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2012
Alexander A Fingelkurts, Andrew A Fingelkurts, Sergio Bagnato et al.
91 citations
The value of resting electroencephalogram (EEG) in revealing neural constitutes of consciousness (NCC) was examined. We quantified the dynamic repertoire, duration and oscillatory type of EEG microstates in eyes-closed rest in relation to the degree of expression of clinical self-consciousness. For NCC a model was suggested that contrasted normal, severely disturbed state of consciousness and...
Brain Research
January 5, 2012
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Carlos F H Neves
35 citations
Instead of using low-level neurophysiology mimicking and exploratory programming methods commonly used in the machine consciousness field, the hierarchical operational architectonics (OA) framework of brain and mind functioning proposes an alternative conceptual-theoretical framework as a new direction in the area of model-driven machine (robot) consciousness engineering. The unified brain-mind...
The open neuroimaging journal
July 8, 2010
Giulio Benedetti, Giorgio Marchetti, Alexander A Fingelkurts et al.
Despite allowing for the unprecedented visualization of brain functional activity, modern neurobiological techniques have not yet been able to provide satisfactory answers to important questions about the relationship between brain and mind. The aim of this paper is to show how two different but complementary approaches, Mind Operational Semantics (OS) and Brain Operational Architectonics (OA),...
Cognitive processing
November 1, 2009
Alexander A Fingelkurts, Andrew A Fingelkurts
To figure out whether the main empirical question "Is our brain hardwired to believe in and produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive and experience God?" is answered, this paper presents systematic critical review of the positions, arguments and controversies of each side of the neuroscientific-theological debate and puts forward an integral view where the human is seen as a...
Cognitive processing
May 1, 2009
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Carlos F H Neves
10 citations
To build a true conscious robot requires that a robot's "brain" be capable of supporting the phenomenal consciousness as human's brain enjoys. Operational Architectonics framework through exploration of the temporal structure of information flow and inter-area interactions within the network of functional neuronal populations [by examining topographic sharp transition processes in the scalp...
New Mathematics and Natural Computation
February 16, 2009
Andrew A. Fingelkurts, Alexander A. Fingelkurts, Carlos F.H. Neves
63 citations
In our contribution we will observe phenomenal architecture of a mind and operational architectonics of the brain and will show their intimate connectedness within a single integrated metastable continuum. The notion of operation of different complexity is the fundamental and central one in bridging the gap between brain and mind: it is precisely by means of this notion that it is possible to...
The open neuroimaging journal
August 29, 2008
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
84 citations
This review paper deals with methodological and technical foundations of the Operational Architectonics framework of brain and mind functioning. This theory provides a framework for mapping and understanding important aspects of the brain mechanisms that constitute perception, cognition, and eventually consciousness. The methods utilized within Operational Architectonics framework allow...