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impasse. This paper enters this debate in four ways. First, we provide a critical summary of
the debate, emphasizing the constraints that lead to the apparent impasse. Second, we argue
that extant attempts to break the impasse invariably rely on a problematic assumption?viz. that
the function of a brain region during task performance reveals its function in the absence of
a task. Third, we suggest a way forward. More specifically, we suggest that by modifying an
existing paradigm for studying sub-personal cognitive processes, one can use standard taskbased
methods to investigate the cognitive function of the default state. Fourth, we discuss the
potential implications of this research for the claim that the default state is the baseline state
of the brain. PL 10
152 Explicit Description of the Mind-Body Problem by Autonomous Neural
Signals Anders Wallenbeck, (Independent Researcher,
Vattholma, Sweden)
Either the neurons or the electrochemical flow signals may be considered as the operator
(the subject) of the neural system. Acting neurons creates logical inconsistency (closed
loops) as things seems to explain them selves. These closed loops fades out into autonomous
signals as inversing the description. Acting signals apply the physical system to achieve its
performance and this adds an extra dimension to space and time within the description. If the
brain works by autonomous signals this, simple principle, allows understanding the intrinsic
mysterious nature of the self-aspect. It is thinkable that this principle is a hidden piece of the
puzzle, which admits us to explain a manifold of aspects as qualia and other phenomena confusing
us. The knowledge on the neural system has grown enormously, since Rene Descartes
found it impossible to explain how the mind affects the body. Still, the basic understanding
lacks. It is thinkable that the ordinary approach don’t fit; whereby the general statement, - the
neuron cells ‘talks’ to each others by the means of electrochemical signals-, is false. Does the
neural web really process information? If autonomous signals operate the brain we have an
elegant explanation on the memory functionality and other phenomena. Memory (or experience)
appears as activated signals instantiated by associative signals. Memory access-time
is zero and information is not stored as patterns into any substrate. This implicates a huge
capacity to cope with information, despite a very slow signal speed. Such a system builds
relevant signal web roads to support signals to operate adequately. This process is ‘learning’
information, where the information signals creates signal associations to each others. Thereby
a thought is activated signals routing them self (‘tunneling’) by their inherent signal pattern.
This ‘tunneling’ signal flow is the mind. The two faces of information code are the signal
pattern and its equivalent route and such acting signals process the information instead of the
physical web.The inversed representation of the external world within the brain signal flow
admits us to be conscious of an entirety and simultaneously be conscious of its parts. The language
shows such a dualistic nature, when the entirety meaning of an expression is achieved
with words that mutually define each other. Inversing the signals, from the qualia sensory
organs, by encoding into autonomously acting signals appears as ‘looking’, ‘listening’, ‘tasting’
and ‘smelling’ etc on the external world. In the conscious window autonomous thought
signals access memory promptly, excluding route traveling time, and globally within the web
to instantiate associative signals. Thereby the signals are ‘talking’ to each others. It seems
conceivable switching the contemplation frame, from neural cells to signals as the center,
adds further understanding on how the neural system operate. Do the neural signals inherent
information enabling signals to route themselves? Do the neurons admit autonomous signals?
In meantime, detecting the answers, is it plausible developing a comprehensive theory based
on the principle of autonomous neural signals? This principle states that consciousness is a
flow characteristic of an amazing rendezvous within the brain. P8