Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: The varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support.
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society March 1, 2017 Stephen Grossberg
Conscious experiences of seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing arise from resonant states in the brain, according to Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART). ART explains how brains autonomously learn to attend, recognize, and predict objects and events. It specifies mechanistic links between consciousness, learning, expectation, attention, resonance, and synchrony. Not all resonances become conscious, and not all brain dynamics are resonant. The theory classifies brain resonances that support conscious experiences, clarifying psychological and neurobiological data in normal individuals and clinical patients. Complementary and laminar cortical processing figure prominently in explanations of conscious and unconscious processes.