The hierarchical emergence of consciousness

Alwyn Scott

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 1996, vol. 40, issue 3, 481-489

Abstract: The nature of dynamics, as we know it, is hierarchical. Thus — it is argued — consciousness emerges from the hierarchical structure of the brain in the same way that life emerges from the hierarchical structure of the body.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4754(95)00050-X

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