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Triple-aspect monism: Physiological, mental unconscious and conscious aspects of brain activity
2014; Imperial College Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1142/s0219635214400068
ISSN1757-448X
Autores Tópico(s)Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
ResumoJournal of Integrative NeuroscienceVol. 13, No. 02, pp. 201-227 (2014) ArticlesNo AccessTriple-aspect monism: Physiological, mental unconscious and conscious aspects of brain activityAlfredo Pereira, Jr.Alfredo Pereira, Jr.Department of Education, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rubião Jr. Campus, 18.618-970 – Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazilhttps://doi.org/10.1142/S0219635214400068Cited by:12 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractBrain activity contains three fundamental aspects: (a) The physiological aspect, covering all kinds of processes that involve matter and/or energy; (b) the mental unconscious aspect, consisting of dynamical patterns (i.e., frequency, amplitude and phase-modulated waves) embodied in neural activity. These patterns are variously operated (transmitted, stored, combined, matched, amplified, erased, etc), forming cognitive and emotional unconscious processes and (c) the mental conscious aspect, consisting of feelings experienced in the first-person perspective and cognitive functions grounded in feelings, as memory formation, selection of the focus of attention, voluntary behavior, aesthetical appraisal and ethical judgment. Triple-aspect monism (TAM) is a philosophical theory that provides a model of the relation of the three aspects. Spatially distributed neuronal dendritic potentials generate amplitude-modulated waveforms transmitted to the extracellular medium and adjacent astrocytes, prompting the formation of large waves in the astrocyte network, which are claimed to both integrate distributed information and instantiate feelings. 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