The Paradigm of the Biopsychology of Consciousness

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The Paradigm of the Biopsychology of
Consciousness
Attila Székely, PhD Hungarian Academy of
Sciences Research Institute for Psychology  
2008
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1. At the end of the 20th century a new
kind of science was born - - The
Science of Consciousness This
happened in 1996 at the Conference of the
Consciousness, in Tucson, USA 2. The most
important disciplines with significant results in
the research of the consciousness and
self-consciousness - 3 main groups a.
psychology, bio-psychology, neuropsychology,
neurobiology, psychiatry, cognitive
science b. philosophy (philosophy of
mind, philosophy of psychology) c. quantum
theory, mathematics - their results
support our model and the principles of the
biopsychology of consciousness
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3. Biopsychology of Consciousness -
a new concept created by us - not
identical with the classical psychology of
consciousness (Wundt, Titchener, W. James)
- interdisciplinarity 3 main systems
of disciplines
Biopsychology, Cognitive Science, Quantum
Theory Principle purposes
- discovery
of the mechanisms of self-consciousnesss and of
Active Cognitive Consciousness (ACC)
- biopsychological
processes of the moment
Purposes based on a new concept of consciousness
and on the basic principles
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• 4. The Basic Principles of the Biopsychology of
  Consciousness
• Biopsychological consciousness has two
  components consciousness and Cognitive
  Consciousness
• Mind (psyche or System of Psyche SP) is not
  identical with consciousness
• Information processing is not consciousness
• Conscious information belongs to the
  consciousness
• 3. Biological level or biodimension
  biostructures
• On it can be found biological,
  chemical, physical, informational and
  consciousness processes
• Biostructures and bioprocesses, by their
  complex quality, are different from inorganic
  structures and processes
• The process of consciousness is built on the
  biolevel, it cannot be interpreted seperately
• Consciousness a new kind of structure and
  process
• Biopsychology of consciousness is an
  interdisciplinary science
• The organic systems are higher levels in
  evolution, than inorganic ones
• The level of consciousness has beeen formed from
  the organic level and constitutes a higher
  evolutionary level

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5. In the biopsychology of consciousness are
needed concrete, clear, unambiguous,
understandable concepts The two by us
specified basic concepts self-consciousness
and cognitive consciousness had ambiguous, large,
unexact, even in some cases different meanings
In our model these two concepts gained concrete
new meanings In English language implicit in
consciousness is awareness Mind is
extremely general, it can denote many different
entities from consciousness
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• 6.
• Ego-consciousness is the momentary
  reproduction through the connection with
  self-consciousness of the image engraved
  durably in the psyche - of the ego or I (that is
  a set of images and concepts about our own
  personality)
• Self-consciousness biologically formed in the
  moment of conception, genetically determined
• - it is self-perception, feeling of life, the
  continuity of the present wakefulness, perception
  of the self-being in comparison with the living
  beings material self and surroundings
• It is composed of two parts
• Basic Self-Consciousness (BSC)
• Self-Consciousness (SC)

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R COMPLEX LIMBIC SYSTEM PALEOCOMPLEX 2
PSYCHOLOGICAL PART - 2
BIOLOGICAL PART SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
- PALEOCOMPLEX COGNITIVE
CONSCIOUSNESS - NEOCORTEX
FIGURE 4
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• 7. The Process of Binding with Consciousness
• The activated centers of the paleocomplex and
  neocortex will be connected with each other in a
  complex way
• Informations, states of being connecting with
  place mostly in neocortex the Basic
  Self-Consciousness (BSC) place paleocortex - ,
  i.e. with the feeling of self-being
• Activating-Consciousness System (ACS) it is
  the whole of the neuronal impulse-transporting
  network of the Ascending Reticular Activating
  System (ARAS) and the Ascending Reticular
  Inhibiting System (ARIS) which is a constantly
  reverberating closed circle
• - Takes part in the process of binding with
  consciousness
• Binding the processing with consciousness
  higher variability, more powerful, deeper,
  broader, more systematized, more relevant, for it
  is more attached to the inner and outer reality
• Thus it serves better the persons integration
  into the environment
• The Virtual-Real Holographic-Consciousness-System
  (VRHCS) the scene of the process of binding
  with consciousness

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A. 8. Virtual-Real Holographic Consciousness
System VRHCS it is quantum-sphere on the
macro-level, i.e. a macro-quantum-sphere it
forms a newer level, dimension, the level of
consciousness or dimension of consciousness,
that is patterned by this System of
Consciousness Consciousness System it is
called so, being different from all known
inorganic and organic systems, it is the most
complex, developed system Virtual because it
is not the reality itself, but its reproduced
copy in the System of Consciousness Real
consciousness system reproduces with its own
structures, re-creates on its own level the outer
and inner reality Holographic it is all
stereoscopic, it is a space-time system, each
part of it is in contact either directly or
indirectly with its other parts
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B. VRHCS It realizes the creatures entire
three-dimensional self-conscious existence inside
the brain-system, which is its whole subjective
life In this own virtual-real holographic
reality, own space-time it lives and by this it
acts Only the conscious segment works by means
of it The macro-quantum-sphere structures of
VRHCS are formed of electromagnetic fields, the
impulses running in the neurons axodendritic
system, a saltatorical advancing and feed-back
flows, the quantum sphere of waters H-bonding,
electrons, high energy photons and corticons,
ions of micro-elements, Bose-Einstein
Condensate, newer particles from the
quantum-field Basic-VRHCS (B-VRHCS)
the holo-reproduction of the brain- and inner
organ-structure in the RS and surrounding nuclei
Central-Basic-VRHCS the central segment
of B-VRHCS Realizes the mere feeling of the
own existence
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C.    VRHCS    Evolution those animals,
in which this system exists, are not only
biological automata, executing reflexes, but
conscious beings     Ontogenesis during the
growth, the changing of the individual,
Basic-Self-Consciousness, the feeling of the own
self, is not changing, the creature will feel
itself identical with itself If
during ontogenesis in brain-structure would
intervene main changes caused by the development,
then individual should possess different EGO
s, self-consciousnesses in different periods of
development, getting new personalities from time
to time
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9. The model of SP in the Biopsychology of
Consciousness Connections SP ECC
VRHCS VRHCS BSC C-ACC ACC B-ACC
SC BSC
SC inner psyche ECC outer psyche B-ACC
frontier between past and present
structure-processes Az alap - Information
Processing and Production (IPP)
- Action-System (AS) -
Emotional-System (ES) In ACC and C-ACC the IPP
becomes thinking (TH) The TH, AS and ES make a
more compact unity in VRHCS TH is the process
of binding with consciousness of IPP and of other
psychological processes
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10. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robots
- they do mostly information processing (less
information production) without any process of
binding with consciousness, because ? - they
have no segment of consciousness - the
Information Processing and Production is not on
the level of that of organic systems
- gt IPP exists without binding with
consciousness, this is the thinking of the
robots and computers
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