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The problem of consciousness

Crick, Francis, Koch, Christof·1992·Scientific American

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  • Attention and awareness tend to be associated with the synchronicity of firing of multiple neurons rather than with neural firing per se or the anatomical site of neural firing.

    “One of the most surprising results to emerge from these studies was that attention and awareness tended to be associated, not with neural firing per se or the anatomical site of neural firing, but with the synchronicity of firing of multiple neurons (Gray et al., 1989; Crick and Koch, 1992; Crick, 1994).”

    From Consciousness: Matter or EMF? (2023) · cites this paper as Crick and Koch, 1992

  • Synchronously-firing neurons are the best established neural correlate of consciousness.

    “This shift from the matter of the brain to EM fields generated by neuron firing also made sense of the discovery that synchronously-firing neurons are the best established neural correlate of consciousness (NCC) [11,12].”

    From The electromagnetic will (2021) · cites this paper as [12]

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Authors
Crick, F., & Koch, C.
Affiliations
Salk Institute for Biological Studies (US)
Venue
Scientific American
Published
1992-09
Volume
267
Issue
3
Pages
152-159
ISSN
0036-8733 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2035398667
Cited by
296
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
FWCI
25.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Scientific American (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
Keywords
consciousness, mind-body problem, philosophy of mind
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain, Consciousness, Humans, Optical Illusions, Vision, Ocular, Visual Perception

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