TITLE:
Critique and Comparison of Prevailing Consciousness Models with a Novel Embodied Cognition Model
AUTHORS:
Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge
KEYWORDS:
Default Space, Metastability, Consciousness, Information Integration, Global Workspace
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.8 No.3,
August
31,
2018
ABSTRACT: In order to produce insight to the current state of consciousness
research, we provide a review of some of the more preeminent models of
consciousness via a comparison of these theories with a novel holistic model.
The main goal of this review is to present the advantages in theoretical power
of an embodied cognition, metastable model of consciousness manifest in the
Default Space Theory by comparing it to other popular brain-based metastable
models that though provide important insight into the cognitive nature of
consciousness, are incomplete in their model of an architecture of
consciousness. The Default Space Theory is a world simulation model in which
the thalamus fills in processed sensory information from corticothalamic
feedback loops into an internal 3D matrix termed the default space. This
article examines some of the most regarded brain-based, metastable
consciousness models, the Operational Architectonics Theory of Brain-Mind,
Global Workspace Theory, Information Integration Theory, and the Dynamic Core
Hypothesis. Through an overview and critique of these models, we illustrate
their insights and deficits, and discuss why the Default Space Theory is the
most comprehensive theory of consciousness.