The standard behavioral index for human consciousness
is the ability to report events with accuracy. While
this method is routinely used for scientific and
medical applications in humans, it is not easy to
generalize to other species. Brain evidence may lend
itself more easily to comparative testing. Human
consciousness involves widespread, relatively fast
low-amplitude interactions in the thalamocortical core
of the brain, driven by current tasks and conditions.
These features have also been found in other mammals,
which suggests that consciousness is a major biological
adaptation in mammals. We suggest more than a dozen
additional properties of human consciousness that may
be used to test comparative predictions. Such
homologies are necessarily more remote in non-mammals,
which do not share the thalamocortical complex.
However, as we learn more we may be able to make
âdeeperâ predictions that apply to some
birds, reptiles, large-brained invertebrates, and
perhaps other species.
Beschreibung
ScienceDirect - Consciousness and Cognition : Criteria
for consciousness in humans and other mammals
%0 Journal Article
%1 seth-criteria-for-consciousness-2004
%A Seth, Anil K.
%A Baars, Bernard J.
%A Edelman, David B.
%D 2005
%J Consciousness and Cognition
%K cogsci consciousness criteria
%N 1
%P 119--139
%R 10.1016/j.concog.2004.08.006
%T Criteria for consciousness in humans and other
mammals
%U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810004000893
%V 14
%X The standard behavioral index for human consciousness
is the ability to report events with accuracy. While
this method is routinely used for scientific and
medical applications in humans, it is not easy to
generalize to other species. Brain evidence may lend
itself more easily to comparative testing. Human
consciousness involves widespread, relatively fast
low-amplitude interactions in the thalamocortical core
of the brain, driven by current tasks and conditions.
These features have also been found in other mammals,
which suggests that consciousness is a major biological
adaptation in mammals. We suggest more than a dozen
additional properties of human consciousness that may
be used to test comparative predictions. Such
homologies are necessarily more remote in non-mammals,
which do not share the thalamocortical complex.
However, as we learn more we may be able to make
âdeeperâ predictions that apply to some
birds, reptiles, large-brained invertebrates, and
perhaps other species.
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is the ability to report events with accuracy. While
this method is routinely used for scientific and
medical applications in humans, it is not easy to
generalize to other species. Brain evidence may lend
itself more easily to comparative testing. Human
consciousness involves widespread, relatively fast
low-amplitude interactions in the thalamocortical core
of the brain, driven by current tasks and conditions.
These features have also been found in other mammals,
which suggests that consciousness is a major biological
adaptation in mammals. We suggest more than a dozen
additional properties of human consciousness that may
be used to test comparative predictions. Such
homologies are necessarily more remote in non-mammals,
which do not share the thalamocortical complex.
However, as we learn more we may be able to make
âdeeperâ predictions that apply to some
birds, reptiles, large-brained invertebrates, and
perhaps other species.},
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