Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: Rapid advances in neuroscience have provided remarkable breakthroughs in understanding the brain on many fronts. Although promising, the role of these advancements in solving the problem of consciousness is still unclear. Based on technologies conceivably within the grasp of modern neuroscience, we envision an experiment where action potentials are initially recorded from all the neurons in a subject’s brain during a conscious experience and then played back into the same neurons. We examine whether this artificial replay can reconstitute a conscious experience. The possible outcomes of this experiment unravel hidden costs and pitfalls in understanding consciousness from the neurosciences’ perspective.
Authors: Albert Gidon, Jaan Aru, Matthew Larkum
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1163571418, G122987265, G2707994935, G3160699921, SFB 1315: Mechanismen und Störungen der Gedächtniskonsolidierung: Von Synapsen zur Systemebene, G3967071527, The processing cycle of human intelligence on the behavioral, neural and algorithmic level, G434337789, Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 2, G6542926802, Cellular mechanisms of predictive processing and its effects on perception, G8580271377
OpenAlex ID: W4223591973