Informational Model of Consciousness: From Philosophic Concepts to an Information Science of Consciousness

Consciousness is an informational projection in the mind of seven subsystems: three form an operative system for short-term adaptation, three form a programmed operating system for body maintenance and long-term survival, and the seventh is an information pole connecting the organism to external information, including extra-sensorial properties. The human body is a bipolar info-matter structure managed by the brain, absorbing and emanating information as a reactive system for adaptation, operating with both matter-related (codified) and non-matter-related (virtual) information. This model allows investigation of consciousness using information science tools and addresses the mind-body problem and the hard problem, showing correspondences with ancient philosophies.

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Abstract

Since ancient times, the humanity has contemplated his relationship with the universe and with itself existence, wondering “who we are”, “how our body/mind works”, and “where we are going to”. Understanding consciousness has been and still remains an issue of debate in this broad context (Gaiseanu, 2018b; 2018d; 2019b). From the perspective of the society which we live in today, flooded by the high technology products of micro-electronics and micro-systems, making our lives easier and substituting many of our hard activities, but On the long and well-worn road of many, but justifiable attempts of human to discover his origin, his trajectory as a species, and a suitable understanding consciousness, his system allowing the connection to the environment and to his own organism, the concepts and models of philosophy enunciated or experienced by millennia, meet today with modern science concepts of physics and of science of information. Based on recent discoveries of quantum physics and astrophysics, revealing a new understanding of our environment and starting from some philosophical concepts on information of matter and of living structures, this work discusses the dynamics of information within the frame of the Informational Model of Consciousness as an informational system of the human body, connected both to the environment and to the body itself, to control the adaptation for survival. It is shown that consciousness is actually an informational projection in the mind of seven informational subsystems, three of which forming the operative system of consciousness for the short-term adaptation, and other three forming the programmed operating system, dedicated to the maintenance of body and to the long-term survival of species, showing various inputs and outputs of information. The seventh subsystem is the information pole, connecting the organism with the external information, especially related to the extra-sensorial properties of the mind, the human body appearing as a bipolar info-matter structure, managed by the brain. The received information is progressively integrated into the informational system of the organism, which absorbs and emanates information as a reactive system for adaptation, able to operate both with matter-related (codified) and non-matter related (virtual) information. As both connections with external and internal environment (body itself) can be described in terms of information, this model opens the gate to investigate consciousness by means of the tools of the information science, offering also answers to the philosophic “mind-body” problem and to the “hard” problem and showing correspondences with some ancient philosophies.