creators_name: Bieberich, Erhard
type: preprint
datestamp: 1999-02-08
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:39
metadata_visibility: show
title: Structure in human consciousness: A fractal approach to the topology of the self perceiving an outer world in an inner space
ispublished: unpub
subjects: neuro-chem
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: consciousness, self, neural network, fractals, brain, artificial intelligence, mind, mind-body problem, neurochemical correlate of consciousness
abstract: 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.
date: 1998-02
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Bieberich, Erhard  (1998) Structure in human consciousness: A fractal approach to the topology of the self perceiving an outer world in an inner space.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/79/1/struc2.htm