Transmission of Meaning in Brain via Qualia
R. Dobrescu
Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Science and Technology of Information December 31, 2024 DOI: 10.56082/annalsarsciinfo.2024.1.50 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Qualitative Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes a cybersemiotic model in which consciousness has a quantitative aspect, the size of consciousness, set by the amount of information that can be integrated or stored in a cluster of neural elements, and a qualitative aspect, qualia, set by the causal informational relationships among those elements. The authors present this as a novel brain correlate of perception linking meaning to qualia in cybersemiotic models of information transmission. |
Abstract
The paper highlights a novel brain correlate of perception, providing a relationship between meaning and respectively the semantic notion of qualia as they appear in cybersemiotic models of information transmission. In this aim we propose a new cybersemiotic model which describes the connection between qualia (the reality of consciousness) and the physical reality of the brain. This model has two characteristics of appreciation of consciousness, one quantitative (the size), determined by the amount of information that can be integrated (stored) in a cluster (complex) of neural elements in the brain, the other qualitative (qualia), determined by causal informational relationships that are established between these elements.
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