ReviewFrontiers in psychology2023
Electromagnetic-field theories of qualia: can they improve upon standard neuroscience?
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- Approaching the nature of consciousness through a phenomenal analysis of early vision. What is the explanandum?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Laying the foundations for a theory of consciousness: the significance of critical brain dynamics for the formation of conscious states.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
How do brains create all our different colors, pains, and other conscious qualities? These various qualia are the most essential aspects of consciousness. Yet standard neuroscience (primarily based on synaptic information processing) has not found the synaptic-firing codes, sometimes described as the "spike code," to account for how these qualia arise and how they unite to form complex perceptions, emotions,
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