Consciousness as the highest integrative function of brain
Chaĭlakhian, L.M.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 6: 35-38
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 10432862 Document Number: 501015
This study has attempted to show that consciousness (sense) can develop only in the living systems during natural evolution based on self-organization. While modelling the systems experimentally, it is impossible to reproduce consciousness phenomena. This fact points to the global differences in the principles of management of living systems as compared to the artificial ones. Due to the existence of various forms of consciousness (from the simplest forms, such as sensing, perception, and feeling to the most complicated ones, such as motivation and desire), the living organisms are capable to interpret the complex neurodynamics of the brain into a simple and functionally significant integral form for them. Owing to consciousness, the behavior of living systems at the highest level of evolution (a human being) becomes an indeterminate behavior with the clearly expressed position of will freedom; it is also important that through consciousness an individual can influence different physiological mechanisms of living organisms.