Volume 11 No 2 (2013)
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Contributions of Dr. Sirajul Husain in the Greatest Unsolved Problems in Cognitive Science
Ganesh Seshan
Abstract
The most significant contribution of Dr. Sirajul Husain is a theory of consciousness that has offered solutions to the
three major unsolved problems in Cognitive Science: How a conscious experience arises in a physical brain, how it
acquires meaning, and how meaning is represented in the brain. His research marks a major paradigm shift by his
introduction of a non-reductionist approach to the phenomenon of consciousness as the foundation of cognition.
His insightful prediction of a novel society of non-coding genes as a non-reductive source for emergence of
consciousness, (International Conference on “Toward a Science of Consciousness”, University of Arizona, 2004)
was based on his conviction that consciousness cannot be reduced to brain physiology, and that it emerges as a
field, with neurobiology essentially acting as a neurocatalyst
Keywords
consciousness, cognition, epistemic faculty of consciousness, sense-sound continuum, neurocatalysis, neurosonemic field
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