Consciousness: The Concept of Functionality of Mechanisms

A large number of materials were compared on the actual results of studies of the mechanisms of individual manifestations of the psyche, describing such a psychic phenomenon as consciousness. They are collected from a system of axiomatics related to the subject area "System Neurophysiology". The basis of the principles for comparison and enhancement is the scientific methodology.

The generalization of these materials over a long period of time spent in collecting and comparing the data led to the creation of a holistic concept of the mechanisms of behavioral adaptivity on the basis of awareness of the current most relevant activity from all the parallel chains of unconscious behavioral automatisms, according to the principle: Images of perception-action (the phase of behavioral chains), which has the greatest value of the product of novelty (situation, conditions in which prot Ekkaet behavior) on the importance (the response of a personal system of significance based on the reception of homeostasis). This focus of attention characterizes the connection of current activity through the hippocampus to the frontal lobes.

At the same time, the significance that was previously associated with this image by the previous act of awareness is motivating for the completion of the subsequent phase of automatism, but when connected to the forecast channel ("advanced excitations" based on previous experience and situational assessment skills), is questioned if in the data New conditions are expected to have undesirable consequences, or there is no experience in assessing the situation at all and caution is required.

In this case, two options are possible. If the trigger stimulus that determines the urgency of the beginning of the next phase of the chain of actions requires immediate continuation of action, then the focus of consciousness is looping the image (for Ivanitsky) for further comprehension and the behavior continues in the consciousness tracking mode in order to evaluate the result of such reckless action and block it in the future if It is undesirable. If the trigger stimulus is late or the action is not so relevant, then the image, again, is looped and the execution of the chain is interrupted to comprehend the situation and to work out a creative version of the behavior with a more desirable predictable outcome. In the future, it is possible and the interruption of this comprehension if there is even more topical novelty-significance. Different types of animals can stack from 1 to 7 (person) of such deferred interrupts.

A selection of materials detailing the concept of the functionality of consciousness >>

The proposed concept, being the basis of the level of adaptability inherent in all living beings with the switching function of the hippocampus, describes the range of all known manifestations of the psyche. Some of the psychic phenomena are disclosed in the relevant articles of the compilation of materials on Systemic Neurophysiology.

Important results are a clear understanding of the principles of individual behavioral adaptability, which can be implemented artificially in the form of AI (artificial
intelligence).