The distributed pineal gland

Article Abstract:

Dennett and Kinsbourne's (D and K) thesis on consciousness clarifies some points on information processing underlying time perception rather than giving light on the issue of consciousness. Their article mainly establishes that representation of a given event or sequence of events may be distributed across brain regions and over time and that the sequence of events as represented by the brain need not be the actual sequence of events as they happened. D and K's ideas apply to time perception which has long been associated with conscious awareness by psychologists. Insights on consciousness are not offered at all.

Time perception

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The psychoanatomy of consciousness: neural integration occurs in single cells

Article Abstract:

How neural cells behave is recounted to explain the brain's integrative processes. Dennett and Kinsbourne recognize that integrative activities can be located spatially and temporally. Integration of sensorimotor stimuli only occur through the summation of graded potentials inside the membrane of single neurons. For two stimuli to interact, the representation of one stimuli in a nerve cell must come together with the representation of the other in the second nerve cell.

Analysis, Neurons, Color vision, Consciousness

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