Students of Dr. Jaak Panksepp, please weigh in!
** Consciousness in ERTAS, or in neocortex? **
I’ve been studying Dr. Mark Solms findings that (a) the Freudian ID is conscious; and that (b) (more generally) the seat of Consciousness is in the subcortical structures rather than in the neocortex.
Are you familiar with this debate?
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Several papers from 2013 on this topic are at
A key talk by Mark Solms starts at
Welcome to the community.
As far as your question; do you mean like this?
I have long thought that the hippocampus/temporal lobe is more of a tourist and less of a driver. [1]
The driver is the midbrain/limbic system.
The back parts of the cortex filter and shape perception, to be registered in hippocampus/temporal lobe as autobiographical memory.
In this general view - the forebrain takes the midbrain “animal impulses” and shape and elaborate them into various actions such as “seeing” (Scanning and parsing visual perception), “hearing” (cocktail effect), and actin…
This is a much more detailed exposition of the role of sub-cortical structures:
HTM seeks to model and understand what is going on in your head.
I tossed this drawing together from memory so it is sure to be missing some connections. I skipped the thalamic connections all together as this was already a very complicated drawing. Also not shown are the connections between the limbic system and the stream passing through the brain stem and the cerebellum. These are important but not necessary to illustrate the basic cortical/limbic data flows. The blue maps are cortex compose…
Numenta is focused on the general cortex algorithm but there are many here with a more general focus.
Well welcome David,
No, and No. But in another thread a couple of (what I would call) daring neuroselfpsychoanalysis experiments are being conducted:
I have been studying (imagination routed to primary visual and audio area) hallucinations and (impaired frontal cortex activity) delusional thinking associated with spiritual psychosis , also called spiritual awakening or other nice sounding name by those who believe it’s a good thing to develop.
From what I read the interruption of sleep to achieve lucid dreaming has caused some people to develop a little schizophrenia, which has warning signs that include loss of normal sleep pattern. It is al…
Sounds exciting:
Neuropsychoanalysis integrates both neuroscience and psychoanalysis, to create a balanced and equal study of the human mind. This overarching approach began as advances in neuroscience lead to breakthroughs which held pertinent information for the field of psychoanalysis. Despite advantages for these fields to interconnect, there is some concern that too much emphasis on neurobiological physiology of the brain will undermine the importance of dialogue and exploration that is foundational to t Ne...
Anything that pertains to causes of various altered states of reality would be helpful towards computationally modeling these states of mind too.
Whether the model is as conscious as we are of itself existing is not for me a modeling issue. I don’t expect this would change behavior of systems producing a sensation of itself, in itself.
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