From Perception to Consciousness: An Epistemic Vision of Evolutionary Processes

The concept of plasticity provides a unifying hypothesis to account for the natural properties of living systems as well as the different levels of perception and information associated with these systems. Are the metadynamics of evolutionary processes able to describe the nature of consciousness as...

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Published inLeonardo (Oxford) Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 243 - 248
Main Author Debono, Marc-Williams
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 238 Main St., Suite 500, Cambridge, MA 02142-1046, USA MIT Press 01.01.2004
The MIT Press
Subjects
Animals
Brain
Consciousness
Creativity
Evolution
Fractals
Humans
Memory
Plants
Theoretical Perspective
Visual perception
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Summary:The concept of plasticity provides a unifying hypothesis to account for the natural properties of living systems as well as the different levels of perception and information associated with these systems. Are the metadynamics of evolutionary processes able to describe the nature of consciousness as a whole? The close study of the link between the coherence of emerging objects and the way we think they appear allows us to use the metaphor of a discontinuous bridge linking primitive perceptions to consciousness just as brain plasticity is linked to art.
Bibliography:June, 2004
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ISSN:0024-094X
1530-9282
DOI:10.1162/0024094041139364