Is consciousness integrated?

Article Abstract:

An 'integrationist' approach to consciousness is proposed in oppose to the Multiple Drafts model. The integrationist position has its origins from Descartes' view wherein the pineal gland is seen as the bridge that connects conscious experience and the brain. Current followers of cerebral integration however, do not subscribe to the view that there is a specific place in the brain where prior subjective judgment occurs. The Multiple Drafts model deny the existence of an integrated conscious stream which the integrationist does not.

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Time and the observer: the where and when of consciousness in the brain

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A theoretical model is presented to explain how and when the brain analyzes and receives different perceptual stimuli. The brain receives and processes stimuli in accordance with how they are experienced and in the sequence in which they occur. The experiments establish that when stimuli occur very fast, the brain remembers and perceives the more useful ones, and not necessarily in the sequence they occur. Furthermore, locus of consciousness cannot be determined by temporal and spatial details remembered by the brain.

Research, Models, Reports, Time perception, Brain research

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Escape from the Cartesian Theater

Article Abstract:

Commentaries and criticisms to the Multiple Drafts model are answered. Answers to such issues as 'verificationism,' 'eliminativism,' and 'antirealism' are made with the claim that the original position is that of a realist and a materialist. Conscious experiences are real events occurring in the real time and space of the brain, hence, they are clockable and locatable within the appropriate limits of precision for real phenomena of their type.

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