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Consciousness-explore

Explorations of the concept of consciousness, self-awareness, and consciousness in brain and machine

Initiated: February 1, 2022 (Last updated: 2023-12-01)

Aims:
(i) Make phenomena, processes and values a conscious experience ("bevisstgjøre prosesser");
(ii) Representation learning, attention, and relationships (in a wide sense). [Inspired by Gallileo's Error, The Conscious Prior, and ... Could Machines Have It?]

See also "Mind Explorer" A copilot for exploring consciousness in animals and machines. Powered by GTP-4 with Browsing, Advanced Data Ananlysis, and DALLE.E built in.

General links:

Computational consciousness

Integrated Information Theory (IIT)

Entropy

  • Gilson, Matthieu; Tagliazucchi, Enzo; Cofré, Rodrigo. Entropy production of Multivariate Ornstein- Uhlenbeck processes correlates with consciousness levels in the human brain. To appear in Physical Review E, 2023 [arXiv]
  • Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela. Your brain produces more entropy while you are awake. New Scientist 8 February 2023 [link]. [Comments] by A.L. 2023-02-06.

Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness (AST)

  • Graziano, Michael S. A. Understanding consciousness. Brain 2021;144(5):1281-1283 [link]
  • Graziano, Michael S. A. A conceptual framework for consciousness. PNAS 2022;119(18):e2116933119 [link]
  • Wilterson, Andrew I.; Kemper, Casey M.; Kim, Noah; Webb, Taylor W.; Reblando, Alexandra M. W.; Graziano, Michael S. A. Attention Control and the Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness. Progress in Neurobiology 2020;195:101844 [link]

Consciousness and deep learning

  • Curtis, Benjamin; Savulescu, Julian. Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view. The Conversation 2022, June 15 [link]. Se also Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview. (2022, June 11 by Blake Lemoine)
  • Dehaene, Stanislas; Lau, Hakwan; Kouider, Sid. What is consciousness, and could machines have it? Science 2017;358(6362):486-492. [link]
  • Krauss, Patrick and Maier, Andreas. Will We Ever Have Conscious Machines? Front Comput Neurosci, December 22, 2020 [link]
  • Langdon, Angela; Botvinick, Matthew; Nakahara, Hiroyuki et al. Meta-learning, social cognition and consciousness in brains and machines. Neural Networks 2022;145:80-89. [link]
  • VanRullen, Rufin and Kanai, Ryota. Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory. Trends in Neurosciences 2021;44(9):692-704. [link] and at https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10390 [pdf]

Disorders of consciousness

Neuroenergetics of consiousness

  • Chen, Yali and Zhang, Jun. How Energy Supports Our Brain to Yield Consciousness: Insights From Neuroimaging Based on the Neuroenergetics Hypothesis. Front Syst Neurosci 2021; 06 July [link] [pdf]
  • Ito, Taku. Modeling hemodynamic response functions of the BOLD signal using Windkessel-Balloon model (https://github.com/ito-takuya/HemodynamicResponseModeling). Based on Friston, Karl J; Harrison, L; Penny W. Dynamic causal modeling. Neuroimage 2003;19(4):1273-12302 [link] [pdf]

Esoteric

Hyphal and mycelial consciousness

  • Money, Nicholas P. Hyphal and mycelial consciousness: the concept of the fungal mind. Fungal Biology 2021;125(4):257-259 [link]

  • Jabr, Ferris. The Social Life of Forests: Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another? The New York Times Magazine, December 2, 2020 [link]

The quantum mind

Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR)

  • Penrose, Roger. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 1994. See [here] and [here]
  • Derakhshani, Maaneli; Diósi, Lajos; Laubenstein, Matthias; Piscicchia, Kristian; Curceanu, Catalina. At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory. Physics of Life Reviews 2022;42:8-14 [link]. See also Collapsing a leading theory for the quantum origin of consciousness.

Fractals

Building artificial neurons with mathematics

  • Kanari, Lida; ...; Markram, Henry. Computational synthesis of cortical dendritic morphologies. Cell Reports 2022;39(1):110586 [link]. Code repository for the topological neuron synthesis algorithm [NeuroTS]

Relevant books

Relevant videos

Relevant podcasts

Relevant fora

HBF

  • HBF Brain and Consciousness (HBF is University of Bergen's research interest group on brain and consciousness) - https://padlet.com/magdadumitru/427b4m9by7e00tpl
    • Lundervold, Arvid. Representation learning and Consciousness with a view to generative AI. HBF seminar, February 23, 2023
      [slides]
    • Lundervold, Arvid. Elements of consciousness - some eclectic perspectives. HBF seminar, March 24, 2022
      [slides]

Others

Misc.

  • Ito, Takuya; Yang, Guangyu R; Laurent, Patryk; Schultz, Douglas H; Cole, Michael W. Constructing neural network models from brain data reveals representational transformations linked to adaptive behavior. Nature Communications 2022;13:673 [link] [code] [data in BIDS]
  • Lundervold, Arne [pic]. Electroencephalographic changes in a case of acute cerebral anoxia unconscious for about three years. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1954;6(2):311-315. [link] [first page]
  • Lundervold, Arvid. On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics. Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2010;4(S9) [link]
  • Lundervold, Alexander S and Lundervold, Arvid. An overview of deep learning in medical imaging focusing on MRI. Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik 2019;29(2):102-127. [link] See also https://www.dgmp.de/de-DE/307/autorenpreis-der-zmp
  • Papenfuss, Mary. Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program [LaMDA] Has Gone Sentient. HuffPost Jun 12, 2022. [link]
  • Torgerson, Carinna et al. The DTI connectivity of the human claustrum. Human Brain Mapping 2015;36(3):827-838 [link] ... These results illustrate that the claustrum is ideally located within the human central nervous system (CNS) connectome to serve as the putative “gate keeper” of neural information for consciousness awareness. See also [here] for a historical background and additional information about the claustrum.

Topics with code

(and source of origin)

  • Hemodynamic Response Modeling [link]. Wu et al. rsHRF toolbox. Neuroimage 2021 [paper]
  • PyPhi (library for computing integrated information (𝚽), and the associated quantities and objects) exploration [link]
  • NeuroTS (Computational generation of artificial neuronal trees based on the topology of reconstructed cells and their statistical properties) [link]
  • Animal Decision Making and The AHA model at the Theoretical Ecology Group, University of Bergen. Code on Gitub: [HEDTOOLS] and [AHA-R1]. ...The targets of the models are usually animal behaviour and ecology but can also be animal wellbeing and animal welfare in aquaculture. In the future maybe evolution of consciousness and human cultures.