Bio Systems
2024
Theodoros Kyriazos, Mary Poga
This paper delves into the innovative intersection of quantum mechanics and psychology, examining the potential of quantum principles to provide fresh insights into human emotions, cognition, and consciousness. Drawing parallels between quantum phenomena such as superposition, entanglement, tunneling, decoherence and their psychological counterparts, we present a quantum-psychological model...
Bio Systems
October 1, 2023
Miku Yamada, Miu Matsumoto, Mina Arakaki et al.
Qualia have traditionally been considered difficult to measure objectively, but with the recent spread of fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and other techniques, various experimental efforts have been made. In this paper, focusing on the qualia for color, we created 6 colors with different RGB values for reference colors of RED, light GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, and PURPLE, and showed them...
Bio Systems
July 1, 2023
Sergey B. Yurchenko
Is information the other face of causation? This issue cannot be clarified without discussing how these both are related to physical laws, logic, computation, networks, bio-signaling, and the mind-body problem. The relation between information and causation is also intrinsically linked to many other concepts in complex systems theory such as emergence, self-organization, synergy, criticality,...
Bio Systems
July 1, 2023
Aleksandr V Zhuravlev
Information, the measure of order in a complex system, is the opposite of entropy, the measure of chaos and disorder. We can distinguish several levels at which information is processed in the brain. The first one is the level of serial molecular genetic processes, similar in some aspects to digital computations (DC). At the same time, higher cognitive activity is probably based on parallel...
Bio Systems
May 1, 2023
Mina Arakaki, Chikako Dozono, Hanna Frolova et al.
In a previous paper, the authors proposed a mathematical definition of a public language and a new model of consciousness based on that public language. Consciousness spans a wide range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy, mathematics, physics, and psychology, and it is desirable that the model of consciousness should also be able to answer questions of consciousness in each...
Bio Systems
April 1, 2023
Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, Robert Prinz
5 citations
This paper presents an alternative to Autopoietic Enactivism in the form of a Code Biology-informed account on human sense-making. It demonstrates the possibility of avoiding a dualism between, on the one hand, the autonomy of individual sense-makers and, on the other, the heteronomy of social facts. This is possible because code biological principles are pertinent to different levels of...
Bio Systems
March 1, 2023
Hana Hebishima, Mina Arakaki, Chikako Dozono et al.
To propose a mathematical model of consciousness and will, we first simulated the inverted qualia with a toy model of a neural network. As a result, we confirmed that there can be an inverted qualia on the neural network. In other words, the qualia were individual-dependent and considered difficult as an indicator of consciousness and will. To solve that difficulty, we introduce a probability...
Bio Systems
2023
Stuart Kauffman, Dean Radin
If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real Possibles...
Bio Systems
October 2019
Majid D Beni
The symbol grounding problem raises its head in the fields of the philosophy of AI, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of cognitive sciences. The solution to the symbol grounding problem must account for the genesis of mental representations in the world. It has to offer a strategy for grounding mental representations in the objective domain. Orthodox representationalist theories do not...
Bio Systems
November 1, 2018
Nadezhda Barvitenko, Alfons Lawen, Muhammad Aslam et al.
Myriads of signaling pathways in a single cell function to achieve the highest spatio-temporal integration. Data are accumulating on the role of electromechanical soliton-like waves in signal transduction processes. Theoretical studies strongly suggest feasibility of both classical and quantum computing involving microtubules. A theoretical study of the role of the complex composed of the...
Bio Systems
February 1, 2017
Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Shuji Shinohara, Taichi Haruna et al.
To overcome the dualism between mind and matter and to implement consciousness in science, a physical entity has to be embedded with a measurement process. Although quantum mechanics have been regarded as a candidate for implementing consciousness, nature at its macroscopic level is inconsistent with quantum mechanics. We propose a measurement-oriented inference system comprising Bayesian and...
Bio Systems
October 1, 2016
Slawomir J Nasuto, Yoshikatsu Hayashi
27 citations
The aim of this paper is to propose that current robotic technologies cannot have intentional states any more than is feasible within the sensorimotor variant of embodied cognition. It argues that anticipation is an emerging concept that can provide a bridge between both the deepest philosophical theories about the nature of life and cognition and the empirical biological and cognitive sciences...
Bio Systems
2010
Andrew John Duggins
A model of consciousness is proposed, in which the experience attributable to a single sensory neuron is related to its instantaneous firing rate. In that this can only be quantified within statistical limits from the incidence of spikes across multiple presentations of a stimulus, consciousness remains inaccessible to direct measurement on a single trial. In this way, the model disambiguates...
Bio Systems
2001
A Duggins
A unified consciousness may be resolved into multiple perceptual and conceptual components. This suggests that it might be useful to represent experience as a vector in a multi-dimensional space (the 'mental state vector'). If it is supposed that a single neuron alone supports minimal consciousness, that vector would exist in a space of minimal dimension. The direction of the vector might then...
Bio Systems
February 1998
B Mitterauer
Instead of attacking the difficult problem of consciousness or self-consciousness directly, the theory is based on the more basic concept of reflection. A concept of reflection is suggested on four levels (recursion, reflective thinking, self-reflection, intersubjective reflection). We propose the glial-neuronal interaction as a neurobiological substrate for reflection processes. It is assumed...
Bio Systems
1994
M Jibu, S Hagan, S R Hameroff et al.
'Laser-like,' long-range coherent quantum phenomena may occur biologically within cytoskeletal microtubules. This paper presents a theoretical prediction of the occurrence in biological media of the phenomena which we term 'superradiance' and 'self-induced transparency'. Interactions between the electric dipole field of water molecules confined within the hollow core of microtubules and the...