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For a while it was common for folks to speculate that consciousness was self-organizing behavior of a chaotic assemblage of electro-chemical relations within th

For a while it was common for folks to speculate that consciousness was self-organizing behavior of a chaotic assemblage of electro-chemical relations within the brain. The problem with that has been that self-organizing behavior adds nothing new. It merely reorganizes existing behavior/properties. This article proposes the existence of the fundamental "thing" that is organized in consciousness, that thing that is the primitive element possessing the property of awareness. Seems good to me. In fact, it seems necessarily true.

visarga 10y ago
> self-organizing behavior of a chaotic assemblage of electro-chemical relations within the brain That seems about right to me. Add that the organism itself is part of a complex environment, with all its sensations and reward signals, and that the organism has to adapt in order to survive/exist in the first place. With these constraints, the self-organizing behavior leads to consciousness.