Consciousness Research Through Pain DOI Open Access
Dong Ah Shin, Min Cheol Chang

Healthcare, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(3), P. 332 - 332

Published: Feb. 6, 2025

Background/Objectives: Consciousness is a complex and elusive phenomenon encompassing self-awareness, sensory perception, emotions, cognition. Despite significant advances in neuroscience, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness remains challenging. Pain, as subjective multifaceted experience, offers unique lens for exploring by integrating inputs with emotional cognitive dimensions. This study examines relationship between pain, highlighting potential of pain model interplay experience activity. Methods: Literature review. Results: Key theories consciousness, such Global Workspace Theory Integrated Information Theory, provide diverse frameworks interpreting emergence consciousness. Similarly, research emphasizes role interpretation context shaping experiences, reflecting broader challenges studies. The limitations current methodologies, particularly difficulty objectively measuring phenomena, like are also addressed. highlights importance correlates, particular focus on brain regions, anterior cingulate cortex insula, which bridge experiences. By analyzing shared attributes this underscores to serve measurable proxy research. Conclusions: Ultimately, it contributes unraveling philosophical underpinnings offering implications mental health treatment advancements artificial intelligence. fills critical gap leveraging reproducible combining theoretical empirical evidence, novel insights into how emerges from processes.

Language: Английский

Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: a multidimensional heuristic approach. DOI Creative Commons
Kathinka Evers, Michele Farisco, Raja Chatila

et al.

Physics of Life Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 52, P. 180 - 193

Published: Jan. 5, 2025

The pursuit of artificial consciousness requires conceptual clarity to navigate its theoretical and empirical challenges. This paper introduces a composite, multilevel, multidimensional model as heuristic framework guide research in this field. Consciousness is treated complex phenomenon, with distinct constituents dimensions that can be operationalized for study evaluating their replication. We argue provides balanced approach by avoiding binary thinking (e.g., conscious vs. non-conscious) offering structured basis testable hypotheses. To illustrate utility, we focus on "awareness" case study, demonstrating how specific pragmatically analyzed targeted potential instantiation. By breaking down the intricacies aligning them practical goals, lays groundwork robust strategy advance scientific technical understanding consciousness.

Language: Английский

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A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Machine Consciousness DOI
Ruilin Qin, Changle Zhou, Mengjie He

et al.

Information Fusion, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 119, P. 102994 - 102994

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Language: Английский

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Minds out of Matter: Imperatives for Artificial Consciousness DOI
Isaac Mao, Sidharta Chatterjee

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Consciousness Research Through Pain DOI Open Access
Dong Ah Shin, Min Cheol Chang

Healthcare, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(3), P. 332 - 332

Published: Feb. 6, 2025

Background/Objectives: Consciousness is a complex and elusive phenomenon encompassing self-awareness, sensory perception, emotions, cognition. Despite significant advances in neuroscience, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness remains challenging. Pain, as subjective multifaceted experience, offers unique lens for exploring by integrating inputs with emotional cognitive dimensions. This study examines relationship between pain, highlighting potential of pain model interplay experience activity. Methods: Literature review. Results: Key theories consciousness, such Global Workspace Theory Integrated Information Theory, provide diverse frameworks interpreting emergence consciousness. Similarly, research emphasizes role interpretation context shaping experiences, reflecting broader challenges studies. The limitations current methodologies, particularly difficulty objectively measuring phenomena, like are also addressed. highlights importance correlates, particular focus on brain regions, anterior cingulate cortex insula, which bridge experiences. By analyzing shared attributes this underscores to serve measurable proxy research. Conclusions: Ultimately, it contributes unraveling philosophical underpinnings offering implications mental health treatment advancements artificial intelligence. fills critical gap leveraging reproducible combining theoretical empirical evidence, novel insights into how emerges from processes.

Language: Английский

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