Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain

This volume is the result of the third Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics which focused on the problem of scale in conscious experience. Set against the philosophical view of "eliminative materialism," the purpose of this conference was to facilitate communication among investigators who approach the study of consciousness and conscious phenomena from a variety of analytical levels. One speculative outcome of the conference is that the columnar arrangement within primary sensory cortices may provide the local isolation necessary for nonlocal interactions to occur. In addition, the relationship between unit activity and field potentials within a circumscribed region of cortex may provide the other enigmatic aspect of neurophysiological nonlocality, namely, the common context in the macro scale. So instead of a problem looking for a solution, scale becomes a solution to a problem. Only further research will determine the utility of the ideas expressed here.

Foreword Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important To Be Left to Specialists to Study?	p. 1
References	p. 7
The Macrolevel: Issues	p. 9
The Problem of Consciousness	p. 11
The Investigation of Consciousness Through Phenomenology and Neuroscience	p. 23
Introduction	p. 25
Abstract	p. 25
References	p. 42
Conclusions	p. 42
The Mesolevel: Neural Systems and Consciousness	p. 45
Blindsight: Conscious vs. Unconscious Aspects	p. 47
References	p. 58
Acknowledgements	p. 61
Heterogeneity of Extrastriate Visual Areas and Multiple Parietal Areas in the Macaque Monkey	p. 65
Cerebral Memory Circuits	p. 89
Abstract	p. 91
Acknowledgement	p. 100
References	p. 100
Neocortical Mechanisms for Visual Memory	p. 105
Acknowledgments	p. 112
From Eye to Hand	p. 117
Acknowledgements	p. 126
Microprocessing and the Nanolevel in the Neurodynamics of Consciousness	p. 131
Beyond Single Unit Recording: Characterizing Neural Information in Networks of Simultaneously Recorded Neurons	p. 133
Introduction	p. 135
Responses of Somatosensory Cortical Neurons to Spatial Frequency and Orientation: A Progress Report	p. 155
Application Toolset for Holographic Neural Technology An Overview	p. 169
Attempts to Unify Chaos, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks	p. 221
Introduction	p. 223
Orchestrated Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules: A Model for Consciousness	p. 241
Abstract	p. 243
Introduction	p. 243
Introduction	p. 264
Introduction	p. 266
Introduction	p. 267
Quantum Physics, Quantum Neurodynamics and Consciousness	p. 275
Nonlocality in Microsystems	p. 313
Abstract	p. 315
Introduction	p. 315
Quantum Dynamics and Neural Dynamics: Analogies between the Formalisms of Bohm and Pribram	p. 337
Conclusions	p. 345
Acknowledgments	p. 346
References	p. 346
Modeling the Heisenberg Matrix: Quantum Coherence and Thought at the Holoscape Manifold and deeper Complementarity	p. 349
Introduction	p. 352
References	p. 375
Acknowledgements	p. 375
Dissipation and Brain	p. 379
Introduction	p. 382
Frohlich Coherence at the Mind-Brain Interface	p. 405
Afterword Appalachian III	p. 439
References	p. 451
List of Authors Cited	p. 453
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