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Front Syst Neurosci

ISSN 1662-5137

7 papers in the library · 21 citations · publishing 2014-2024

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Unifying biophysical consciousness theories with MaxCon: maximizing configurations of brain connectivity.

Front Syst Neurosci July 29, 2024 Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Diego Martin Mateos, Ramón Guevara et al. 4 citations

There is such a vast proliferation of scientific theories of consciousness that it is worrying some scholars. There are even competitions to test different theories, and the results are inconclusive. Consciousness research, far from converging toward a unifying framework, is becoming more discordant than ever, especially with respect to theoretical elements that do not have a clear...

Editorial: Comparative animal consciousness.

Front Syst Neurosci October 19, 2022 Louis N Irwin, Lars Chittka, Eva Jablonka et al. 11 citations

The scientific study of consciousness has seen a resurgence in the 21st century. This collection of reviews, essays, and theories on various aspects of comparative animal consciousness takes a biological and evolutionary approach. As defined here, consciousness refers to the process by which an animal has perceptual and affective experience or feelings, arising from the material substrate of a...

Types of Consciousness: The Diversity Problem.

Front Syst Neurosci November 22, 2021 Carlos Montemayor 6 citations

Consciousness research has a cognitive-diversity problem. Any view that holds that attention is either necessary for consciousness or that attention precedes conscious awareness confronts the difficulty that the theoretical categorization of attention is as diverse as the categorization of intelligent cognition, but consciousness is typically referred to as a single and unified capacity. On the...