A Computational Model for Interhemispheric Interactions and its Correlates of Consciousness Hadjar Homaei November 27, 2006

Consciousness Consciousness is the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

Consciousness Phenomenal consciousness is experience itself "I am conscious." Access consciousness is the processing of the things in experience "I am conscious of these words."

Consciousness Tests Turing Test Mirror Test Delay Test

Cognitive neuroscience approaches Psychological statistical studies Case studies of consciousness states and the deficits that disrupt the normal functioning of human senses and cognition.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness Neural correlate of a content of experience NCC Neuroscience hypothesizes that consciousness is generated by the interoperation of various parts of the brain, called the NCCs.

Artificial Consciousness Artificial consciousness (AC) Machine consciousness (MC) Synthetic consciousness

Corpus Callosum and Split-Brain Corpus Callosum is the neural link between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Split-brain It is rarely performed, usually in the case of epilepsy

Split-Brain Experiments

Split Brain and Consciousness Some say that it is as if two separate minds now share the same skull, but both still represent themselves as a single "I" to the outside world.[

My Envisioned Thesis Problem develop a computational model for the corpus callosumThe purpose of this envisioned thesis is to develop a computational model for the corpus callosum, using the currently available neuro-anatomical data and simplify it to a minimal level that by eliminating each part it can exhibit the phenomenal consciousness deficits that is seen in split brain patients. In the ideal condition we can do the surgery on mice or monkeys and investigate the effects on Access consciousness in depth.

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