A Review of the Relationship among Self, Mind and Brain in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study: Tree-Pattern Image of Semantic Map in Human Brain Viewed from the Ultron-Logotron Theory

The neural basis of consciousness remains incompletely understood. While recent evidence points to the cortico-thalamic system as a neural correlate of consciousness, specific brain regions involved in cognitive activities like understanding words, feelings, and thoughts are not yet identified. This paper proposes a tree-pattern architecture of the cerebral neural substrate for such cognitive understanding, based on the author's ultron-logotron theory, to explain the neural correlate of consciousness.

Study at a glance

Abstract

The scientific relationship among self, mind and brain is still not clearly known. Self’s subjective experience of perception and cognition of words, feelings, thoughts etc. is supported by the integrity of human brain. Consequently, neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, physicists and philosophers have been investigating to find the scientific relationship between mind and brain, consciousness and quantum physics. Recent experimental evidence suggests that the neural correlate of consciousness is located in certain parts of the cortico-thalamic system. But it is not known specifically which parts of the human brain are involved in the human cognitive activity. In this study, the author proposed a tree-pattern architecture of the cerebral neural substrate in cognitive understanding of words, feelings, and thoughts on the basis of the author’s hypothesis of the ultron-logotron theory to explain the neural correlate of consciousness.