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What is Mind, What is Consciousness, and Where This Resides
Florin Gaiseanu
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2023.03.001
Science and Technology of Information Bucharest (Romania) and Barcelona (Spain)
The main purpose of this paper is to respond to the questions what is mind and consciousness and where this resides. The answers are based on the frontline Informational Model of Human Body and Living Structures (IMHBLS), which shows that mind and consciousness can be described by the activity of the Informational System of the Human Body and Living Structures (ISHBLS), consisting of seven informational components, each of them with specific activity and functions, inter-correlated to support the immaterial/informational manifestation of the body expressed by mind and consciousness. The basic concept of matter-related and virtual information results as a consequence of the operability of the physics, chemistry, biologic, or mathematics laws, which actually act as informational operators, such processes are informationally driven and manifested finally as a “media-like functions” of mind and consciousness, on the “screen/display” of prefrontal cortex. The mind is therefore described as the capacity of every individual to access the data field of own life experience, where the thought acts as an informational operator, which can activate the required information from internal/external reality. Consciousness is the result of the info-representation of the explored reality, accumulated by the momentary connection, and compared/combined with the life experience, serving as judgment reference/criteria. The question is discussed in relation with the localization of consciousness, showing that this resides in the brain, as a result of the activity of ISHBLS. The discussion on the experimental evidences concerning the minimal basic components necessary and sufficient to sustain consciousness, compared with the results of the informational model, indicates the cortico-thalamus axis, in a full agreement each other. One of the basic findings is that the activation of consciousness is operated in two steps, one consisting in a feed-forward reception and another in feedback perception for recognition of the info-significance, which is fully supported by the recently reported experimental results. The phenomena of intuition, inspiration, premonition, “deja vue”, retrocausality, and intentionality are discussed. This model unifies the eastern and western concepts/models on consciousness and mind, explaining the energetic Yung/Yin Chinese model by YES/NO—informational Bit-type behavior, the Plato’s ideas/forms by “information” concept as a participating component of reality, Aristotle’s materialist view with matter structuration (assisted by information), and archaic model of the seven “chakras” at human, as vital informational centers connected with the body.
information/matter-related information, informational model/system, info-communication, living structures, mind/body/consciousness, brain/informational centers, intuition/revelation/inspiration, premonition/intentionality retrocausation, past memory
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