TITLE:
Towards a Possible Entropy-Driven Process of Consciousness
AUTHORS:
Pierre R. Blanquet
KEYWORDS:
Emerging Consciousness, Noetico-Neuronal Process, Intentional Embodied Consciousness, Physiological Homeostasis, Cosmologic Entropy Production
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science,
Vol.8 No.12,
December
27,
2018
ABSTRACT: In the present article, we argue that consciousness and body are not to be separate to explain the intentional consciousness of the human being facing to environment. 1) The most neurobiologist and neurocognitivist studies suggest that the emerging consciousness appears to be a generic recurring process which subsumes under it the various results of scientist approaches. When analyzed with the cybernetic transductive method of Simondon, this process can be viewed as a noetico-neuronal unit which the sui generis activity can be boiled down to concept of intentional consciousness. 2) Homeostasis can be also metaphorically described as a generic recurring process which subsumes under it the myriad molecular feedback loops of organism. This self-regulating dynamic process could be governed by the cosmologic (Earth + Universe) production of entropy, which would keep high activity and dissipating energy and low internal entropy to maintain an ordering in the organic structure. 3) Based on numerous arguments and data, the cerebral noetico-neuronal process and the self-regulating homeostasic process may be viewed as an entire physiological (brain + body) system. We suggest that the whole (brain + body) has an intentional embodied consciousness that could be driven by the cosmologic production of entropy.