The neuroevolutionary sources of mind
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Jaak Panksepp✝
Abstract
The bipolar affective structures of brain emotional processes – namely negative and positive affects – provide ideal ways to make scientific progress on the “hard problem” of primal consciousness: wherever in subcortical brain regions one applies highly localized electrical deep brain stimulation, and obtains coherent emotional behaviors, animals treat these brain arousals as ‘rewards’ and ‘punishments’ using various simple learning tasks. Humans also consistently report experienced affective changes during such artificial brain arousals. Such evidence suggests the first glimmers of consciousness in BrainMind evolution arose in medial brainstem regions. These hedonic effects, of subcortical origin, are here deemed gold standards for the existence of evolved affective qualia in animal and human brains, perhaps the first evolutionary substrates of mind, critical for the emergence of cognitive consciousness.
Abstract
The bipolar affective structures of brain emotional processes – namely negative and positive affects – provide ideal ways to make scientific progress on the “hard problem” of primal consciousness: wherever in subcortical brain regions one applies highly localized electrical deep brain stimulation, and obtains coherent emotional behaviors, animals treat these brain arousals as ‘rewards’ and ‘punishments’ using various simple learning tasks. Humans also consistently report experienced affective changes during such artificial brain arousals. Such evidence suggests the first glimmers of consciousness in BrainMind evolution arose in medial brainstem regions. These hedonic effects, of subcortical origin, are here deemed gold standards for the existence of evolved affective qualia in animal and human brains, perhaps the first evolutionary substrates of mind, critical for the emergence of cognitive consciousness.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- The constitution of visual and phenomenal consciousness 1
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The scientific study of consciousness
- Theories and methods in the scientific study of consciousness 17
- The scientific study of coma and related states 48
- De-confounding the neural constitution of phenomenal consciousness from attention, report and memory 81
- The correlation/constitution distinction problem 104
- The neural correlates of consciousness 155
- On the various neural correlates of consciousness 177
- On why the unconscious prerequisites and consequences of consciousness might derail us from unraveling the neural correlates of consciousness 205
- The neuroevolutionary sources of mind 226
- The future of consciousness science 260
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Philosophy of mind
- The philosophy of phenomenal consciousness 273
- The philosophy of mind needs a better metaphysics 293
- The scientific evidence for materialism about pains 310
- The status of consciousness in nature 330
- Identity over time, constitution and the problem of personal identity 348
- Constitution, realization and identity 372
- Correlation, causation, constitution 400
- The material constitution of phenomenal consciousness 418
- Material constitution, the neuroscience of consciousness, and the temporality of experience 433
- The structure of phenomenal consciousness 445
- Index 465
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- The constitution of visual and phenomenal consciousness 1
-
The scientific study of consciousness
- Theories and methods in the scientific study of consciousness 17
- The scientific study of coma and related states 48
- De-confounding the neural constitution of phenomenal consciousness from attention, report and memory 81
- The correlation/constitution distinction problem 104
- The neural correlates of consciousness 155
- On the various neural correlates of consciousness 177
- On why the unconscious prerequisites and consequences of consciousness might derail us from unraveling the neural correlates of consciousness 205
- The neuroevolutionary sources of mind 226
- The future of consciousness science 260
-
Philosophy of mind
- The philosophy of phenomenal consciousness 273
- The philosophy of mind needs a better metaphysics 293
- The scientific evidence for materialism about pains 310
- The status of consciousness in nature 330
- Identity over time, constitution and the problem of personal identity 348
- Constitution, realization and identity 372
- Correlation, causation, constitution 400
- The material constitution of phenomenal consciousness 418
- Material constitution, the neuroscience of consciousness, and the temporality of experience 433
- The structure of phenomenal consciousness 445
- Index 465
