CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED

  Consciousness explained 1. Introduction. The aim of this paper is the original description of a hypothetical neural mechanism able to explain the formation of the percept and therefore consciousness. Consciousness, or the conscious self, might be defined as perception with uniqueness and individuality (indivisibility). Perception might be defined as the knowledge of reality based on the sensory information. The perception is the interpretation of the sensory information, the identification of an object through the formation of the percept, the mental object of perception. The brain forms the percept rebuilding an objective mental image of anything by means of integrating (summing) diverse sensory information. For instance: when perceiving a red snooker ball, the brain associates and integrates information about (at least, for instance) the round form and the red colour of the ball, whose information is being simultaneously processed along parallel neur...