
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is There a Mechanistic Understanding of the Fingerprint of Consciousness?
In the future, you will be able to flash out a more comprehensive description of this architecture using various mathematical techniques. We are now trying to apply this to patients who have had some kind of similar brain injury but still might be conscious. And if i understand that if i cut the circuit here or there, then i'm gotn intos unconsciousness, which, of course, if you flip it around andcouse, if i notice that this circuit is compromised in certain places, i can try to intervene on it. So if only we could get this kind of mechanistic understanding of what is the physiological finger print of consciousness, then i could come up with ways for reigniting it.
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