A Three-Layered Model for Consciousness States

Volume 14 No 2 (2016)

Arushi Kak, Abhinav Gautam, Subhash Kak

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2016.14.2.935

Abstract

This paper presents a general three-level framework to represent different states of consciousness. Although awareness, by itself, is an all-or-nothing phenomenon, the state of consciousness depends on the degree to which preconscious and memory states are accessible to awareness. The relative ability to recruit these states and integrate distributed neural activity has a corresponding effect on the state of attention which can, therefore, be measured on a spectrum

Keywords

consciousness states, neural correlates of consciousness, hierarchical processing, perception sensation decoupling, quantum neural processing

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