TY  - JOUR
AU  - Irwin Louis N
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/12
TI  - What Current Theories of Consciousness are Missing
JO  - Neurology and Neuroscience
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
AB  - Notwithstanding the power of the cell assembly concept, which holds that specific patterns of neuronal
activity constitute the substrate of perceptual awareness that rises into consciousness, a explanatory gap
remains between the phenomenological experience of consciousness and the brain processes from which
that experience arises. A number of compelling and insightful theories have been offered that attempt
to bridge that gap, but most of them fall short by failing to [a] specify which of many options other
than hard-wired cell assemblies carry the information that becomes conscious, or [b] identify the brain
mechanism for monitoring the functional events that become conscious. This Viewpoint article points
to a number of possibilities that could be considered for both the substrate and monitor that give rise to
consciousness.
SN  - 2692-7918
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.33425/2692-7918.1059
DO  - 10.33425/2692-7918.1059