JC - 11/18/20
In contemplation the mind is not at pause but fully active
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Not sure I know the evidence. Intuitively, it seems like many neurons need to fire for conscious experience, but what about:
Local field potentials and their predictability? The Jennifer Aniston neuron? Mirror Neurons?
These two processes can interact with each other
$$ Y_{t+1} = f(Y_t, E_t) $$
$$ E_{t+1} = g(Y_t, E_t) $$
$$ + \epsilon $$
$$ + \epsilon $$
Information flow, \(J_t\), is defined as the conditional mutual information between current environmental state \(E_t\) and future system state \(Y_{t+1}\) given the current system state
A system is informationally closed when \(J_t = 0 \)
J equals how much the future of the system depends on the environment MINUS how much the future of the system depends on it's own history
Modeling
Passive Adaptation
Hypothesis:
A process Y is conscious if and only if it is a C-process of some process X
5 Implications
Two scenarios:
Reflexive behaviors
Adding trivial information to a process
Conscious processing:
"An NTIC process can still provide environmental information without new sensory inputs"
Summary
Multilevel Views
IIT
Predictive processing
Sensorimotor Contingency
Global Workspace Theory
*I have my own theory of a connection between semantic information and conscious experience/perception