Cargando…
Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness
Contemporary theories of consciousness, although very efficient in postulating testable hypotheses, seem to either neglect its relational aspect or to have a profound difficulty in operationalizing this aspect in a measurable manner. We further argue that the analysis of periodic brain activity is i...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900726 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1245868 |
_version_ | 1785126569304391680 |
---|---|
author | Ladas, Aristea I. Gravalas, Triantafyllos Stoneham, Tom Frantzidis, Christos A. |
author_facet | Ladas, Aristea I. Gravalas, Triantafyllos Stoneham, Tom Frantzidis, Christos A. |
author_sort | Ladas, Aristea I. |
collection | PubMed |
description | Contemporary theories of consciousness, although very efficient in postulating testable hypotheses, seem to either neglect its relational aspect or to have a profound difficulty in operationalizing this aspect in a measurable manner. We further argue that the analysis of periodic brain activity is inadequate to reveal consciousness’s subjective facet. This creates an important epistemic gap in the quest for the neural correlates of consciousness. We suggest a possible solution to bridge this gap, by analysing aperiodic brain activity. We further argue for the imperative need to inform neuroscientific theories of consciousness with relevant philosophical endeavours, in an effort to define, and therefore operationalise, consciousness thoroughly. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10603270 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-106032702023-10-28 Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness Ladas, Aristea I. Gravalas, Triantafyllos Stoneham, Tom Frantzidis, Christos A. Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience Contemporary theories of consciousness, although very efficient in postulating testable hypotheses, seem to either neglect its relational aspect or to have a profound difficulty in operationalizing this aspect in a measurable manner. We further argue that the analysis of periodic brain activity is inadequate to reveal consciousness’s subjective facet. This creates an important epistemic gap in the quest for the neural correlates of consciousness. We suggest a possible solution to bridge this gap, by analysing aperiodic brain activity. We further argue for the imperative need to inform neuroscientific theories of consciousness with relevant philosophical endeavours, in an effort to define, and therefore operationalise, consciousness thoroughly. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10603270/ /pubmed/37900726 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1245868 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ladas, Gravalas, Stoneham and Frantzidis. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Human Neuroscience Ladas, Aristea I. Gravalas, Triantafyllos Stoneham, Tom Frantzidis, Christos A. Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title | Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title_full | Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title_fullStr | Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title_short | Towards a hybrid approach to unveil the Chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
title_sort | towards a hybrid approach to unveil the chimaira of neurosciences: philosophy, aperiodic activity and the neural correlates of consciousness |
topic | Human Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900726 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1245868 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT ladasaristeai towardsahybridapproachtounveilthechimairaofneurosciencesphilosophyaperiodicactivityandtheneuralcorrelatesofconsciousness AT gravalastriantafyllos towardsahybridapproachtounveilthechimairaofneurosciencesphilosophyaperiodicactivityandtheneuralcorrelatesofconsciousness AT stonehamtom towardsahybridapproachtounveilthechimairaofneurosciencesphilosophyaperiodicactivityandtheneuralcorrelatesofconsciousness AT frantzidischristosa towardsahybridapproachtounveilthechimairaofneurosciencesphilosophyaperiodicactivityandtheneuralcorrelatesofconsciousness |