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Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: Criticality and self-organization considerations

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  • Fingelkurts, Andrew A.
  • Fingelkurts, Alexander A.
  • Neves, Carlos F.H.

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In this paper we aim to show that phenomenal consciousness is realized by a particular level of brain operational organization and that understanding human consciousness requires a description of the laws of the immediately underlying neural collective phenomena, the nested hierarchy of electromagnetic fields of brain activity – operational architectonics. We argue that the subjective mental reality and the objective neurobiological reality, although seemingly worlds apart, are intimately connected along a unified metastable continuum and are both guided by the universal laws of the physical world such as criticality, self-organization and emergence.

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  • Fingelkurts, Andrew A. & Fingelkurts, Alexander A. & Neves, Carlos F.H., 2013. "Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: Criticality and self-organization considerations," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 13-31.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:55:y:2013:i:c:p:13-31
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2013.02.007
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