Inference as Consciousness of Necessity

Consciousness and Attention: On Sufficiency and Necessity

Recent research has slowly corroded a belief that selective attention and consciousness are so tightly entangled that they cannot be individually examined. In this review, we summarize psychophysical and neurophysiological evidence for a dissociation between top-down attention and consciousness. The evidence includes recent findings that show subjects can attend to perceptually invisible object...

Necessity as justified truth

We present a logic for the reasoning about necessity and justifications which is independent from relational semantics. We choose the concept of justification – coming from a class of Justification Logics (Artemov 2008, Fitting 2009) – as the primitive notion on which the concept of necessity is based. Our axiomatization extends Suszko’s non-Fregean logic SCI (Brown, Suszko 1972) by basic axiom...

Virtual reality and consciousness inference in dreaming

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual reality generator that - through experience-dependent plasticity - becomes a generative or predictive model of the world. This model, which is most clearly revealed in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep dreaming, may provide the theater for conscious experience. Functional neuroimaging evidence for brain a...

Health as expanding consciousness.

Quantum World as Consciousness

By examining the consciousness in terms of reference frames in quantum dynamics, it will be shown that the unitary evolution of an arbitrary wavefunction, including that of the Universe, which one experiences, is the evolution within the observer’s consciousness.