Consciousness and the structuring property of typical data
arXiv Preprint Archive March 14, 2012 Jonathan W. Mason
A proposed partial theory defines consciousness as relations among brain states that arise from typical brain activity patterns. A single brain state is nearly meaningless, but when placed within the context of the brain's inherent structure and typical states, it becomes highly structured by these relations. The theory can be tested theoretically and experimentally, and discrete mathematics fully specifies how typical data determines these relations.