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The Brain's Representational Power - On Consciousness and the Integration of Modalities (Hardcover)
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The Brain's Representational Power - On Consciousness and the Integration of Modalities (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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A neuroscientifically informed theory arguing that the core of
qualitative conscious experience arises from the integration of
sensory and cognitive modalities. Although science has made
considerable progress in discovering the neural basis of cognitive
processes, how consciousness arises remains elusive. In this book,
Cyriel Pennartz analyzes which aspects of conscious experience can
be peeled away to access its core: the "hardest" aspect, the
relationship between brain processes and the subjective,
qualitative nature of consciousness. Pennartz traces the problem
back to its historical roots in the foundations of neuroscience and
connects early ideas on sensory processing to contemporary
computational neuroscience. What can we learn from neural network
models, and where do they fall short in bridging the gap between
neural processes and conscious experience? Do neural models of
cognition resemble inanimate systems, and how can this help us
define requirements for conscious processing in the brain? These
questions underlie Pennartz's examination of the brain's anatomy
and neurophysiology. The perspective of his account is not limited
to visual perception but broadened to include other sensory
modalities and their integration. Formulating a representational
theory of the neural basis of consciousness, Pennartz outlines
properties that complex structures must express to process
information consciously. This theoretical framework is constructed
using empirical findings from neuropsychology and neuroscience as
well as such theoretical arguments as the Cuneiform Room and the
Wall Street Banker. Positing that qualitative experience is a
multimodal and multilevel phenomenon at its very roots, Pennartz
places this body of theory in the wider context of mind-brain
philosophy, examining implications for our thinking about animal
and robot consciousness.
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