Consciousness, brains and the replica problem
| dc.creator | Sole, Ricard V. | |
| dc.date | 2007-12-07 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:47:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:47:55Z | |
| dc.description | Although the conscious state is considered an emergent property of the underlying brain activity and thus somehow resides on brain hardware, there is a non-univocal mapping between both. Given a neural hardware, multiple conscious patterns are consistent with it. Here we show, by means of a simple {\em gedankenexperiment} that this has an important logic consequence: any scenario involving the transient shutdown of brain activity leads to the irreversible death of the conscious experience. In a fundamental way, unless the continuous stream of consciousness is guaranteed, the previous self vanishes and is replaced by a new one. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 1 figure, preprint | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1126 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1126 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/143771 | |
| dc.subject | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems | |
| dc.subject | Neurons and Cognition | |
| dc.title | Consciousness, brains and the replica problem | |
| dc.type | text |