TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints79
UR  - http://cogprints.org/79/
A1  - Bieberich, Erhard
TI  - Structure in human consciousness: A fractal approach to the topology of the self perceiving an outer world in an inner space
Y1  - 1998/02//
N2  - In human consciousness a world of separated objects is perceived by an inner observer who is experienced as an undivided feeling of one-self. A topological correlation of the self to the world, however, entails a paradoxical situation by either merging all separated objects into one or splitting the self into as many subselves as there are objects perceived. This study introduces a model suggesting that the self is generated in a neural network by algorithmic compression of spatial and temporal information into a fractal structure. A correlation of an inner observer to parts of a fractal structure inevitably entails a correlation to the whole, thereby preserving the undividedness of the self. Molecular mechanisms for the generation of a fractal structure in a neural network and the possibility of experimental investigation will be discussed.
AV  - public
KW  - consciousness
KW  -  self
KW  -  neural network
KW  -  fractals
KW  -  brain
KW  -  artificial intelligence
KW  -  mind
KW  -  mind-body problem
KW  -  neurochemical correlate of consciousness
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