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Homeostatic biophasal conscious regulation
Y Naisberg1, I Modai, A Weizman
1Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post, Hafer, Israel.
Medical Hypotheses
|August 6, 2000
Summary
This neuroscientific model explains focal awareness as neurophysiological patterns governed by homeostatic rules. Consciousness arises from information processing, distinguishing subjective pleasure or displeasure states.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Mind
Background:
- Consciousness remains a complex phenomenon with ongoing debate regarding its neurobiological underpinnings.
- Existing models often struggle to integrate subjective experience with objective physiological processes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present a novel neuroscientific theory of consciousness.
- To elucidate the mechanisms of focal awareness through a homeostatic information-processing model.
Main Methods:
- Development of a theoretical neuroscientific model.
- Description of information-processing elements: inherited schematic representation (ISR) programs, acquired engram linkage (AEL) programs, and sensory information systems.
- Integration of homeostatic rules and the demand-supply principle.
Main Results:
- Focal awareness is proposed as the result of neurophysiological patterns managing information registration, storage, and retrieval.
- Consciousness is linked to organismic biphasal homeostatic regulations, involving pleasure and displeasure states.
- The model defines consciousness as a neurophysiological activity essential for monitoring information, bounded by the 'conscious instrument panel' (CIP).
Conclusions:
- The proposed model offers a biological framework for understanding consciousness.
- It highlights the role of homeostatic regulation and information processing in subjective experience.
- This theory provides a foundation for further neuroscientific investigation into the nature of consciousness.