Synopsis:
- Locations where the brain binds features together: convergent zones
- A convergence zone is not a "store" of information but an agent capable of decoding a signal (of reconstructing information)
- Convergence zones behave like indexes that draw information from other areas of the brain.
- A convergence zone is the instructions to recognize and combine features (bring back the memory of something)
- Convergence zones enable the brain to work in reverse at any time
- The assembly ("binding") of consciousness requires more than a working memory: a system of "convergence zones"
- "Movie in the mind" consciousness (how a number of sensory inputs are transformed into the continuous flow of sensations of the mind):
- Constructed from sensory mappings
- First order narrative of sensory mappings
- Unchanged throughout a lifetime
- Shared by other species
- Purely non-verbal process
- "Self" consciousness
- Topography of the body
- Topography of the environment
- Self vs nonself
- Second-order narrative in which the self is interacting with the non-self
- An "owner" and "observer" of the movie is created
- Verbal process
- Body's homeostasis (continuity of the same organism)
- The self is continuously reconstructed
- The "I" is not telling the story: the "I" is created by stories told in the mind
- "You are the music while the music lasts" (Eliot)
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