Towards new concepts for a biological neuroscience of consciousness
Cognitive Neurodynamics June 10, 2020 C. M. Signorelli, Daniel Meling
A theoretical paper introduces new concepts—closure, compositionality, biobranes, and autobranes—to model consciousness in a non-reductionist way. It argues that consciousness co-arises with the non-trivial composition of biological closure, where conscious processes generate closed activity at various levels and are supported by biobranes and autobranes. This approach aims to integrate biological and phenomenological perspectives, offering a new framework for a science of consciousness. Future work will develop experimental definitions and computational simulations to characterize these dynamical biobranes.