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Single Idea 4937
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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Full Idea
Early and central in the development of the brain are the dimensions provided by value systems indicating salience for the entire organism.
Clarification
'Salience' is significance
Gist of Idea
Systems that generate a sense of value are basic to the primitive brain
Source
G Edelman / G Tononi (Consciousness: matter becomes imagination [2000], Ch.13)
Book Ref
Edelman,G/Tononi,G: 'Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination' [Penguin 2000], p.174
A Reaction
This doesn't quite meet Hume's challenge to find values in the whole of nature, but it matches Charles Taylor's claim that for humans values are knowable a priori. Conditional values can be facts of the whole of nature. "If there is life, x has value..".
The
21 ideas
from G Edelman / G Tononi
5793
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Concepts and generalisations result from brain 'global mapping' by 'reentry'
[Edelman/Tononi, by Searle]
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4922
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Consciousness involves interaction with persons and the world, as well as brain functions
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4924
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A conscious human being rapidly reunifies its mind after any damage to the brain
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4923
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The three essentials of conscious experience are privateness, unity and informativeness
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4925
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Brains can initiate free actions before the person is aware of their own decision
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4926
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Concepts arise when the brain maps its own activities
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4929
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Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4928
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Brain complexity balances segregation and integration, like a good team of specialists
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4927
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Information-processing views of the brain assume the existence of 'information', and dubious brain codes
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4933
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Consciousness is a process, not a thing, as it maintains unity as its composition changes
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4930
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Consciousness arises from high speed interactions between clusters of neurons
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4932
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A conscious state endures for about 100 milliseconds, known as the 'specious present'
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4931
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Consciousness is a process (of neural interactions), not a location, thing, property, connectivity, or activity
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4934
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Cultures have a common core of colour naming, based on three axes of colour pairs
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4935
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The sensation of red is a point in neural space created by dimensions of neuronal activity
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4936
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The self is founded on bodily awareness centred in the brain stem
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4937
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Systems that generate a sense of value are basic to the primitive brain
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4939
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A sense of self begins either internally, or externally through language and society
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4938
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Prior to language, concepts are universals created by self-mapping of brain activity
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4940
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Physicists see information as a measure of order, but for biologists it is symbolic exchange between animals
[Edelman/Tononi]
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4941
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Consciousness can create new axioms, but computers can't do that
[Edelman/Tononi]
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