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framework:midbrain-theory-of-consciousnessMidbrain Theory of Consciousness
Identifies consciousness with a unified multimodal neural model of the agent within its environment; supports agency indicator AE-1
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- Midbrain Theoryrelated_toTheory that consciousness depends on integrated spatiotemporal modeling in the midbrain and basal ganglia for action selection.
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- Emphasizes links between agency and consciousness through sensorimotor contingencies
- A theoretical framework explaining why consciousness is associated with brains.
- Theoretical clarification distinguishing ToM from consciousness to frame the study's approach.
- Minimal set of neural mechanisms jointly sufficient for the occurrence of a conscious experience; dominant neuroscience approach critiqued as insufficient for causal theory
- Theories requiring metacognition or higher-order representations for consciousness; one of the indicator sets in Butlin et al. 2023.
- Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers
- The paper's model that conscious directed attention functions as a conductor of the mental orchestra, resolving incoherence between partial models
- Component of MCH stating consciousness is a specific dynamic representation in the human mind characterizable by phenomenology and functionality