The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: Reconciling Neuroscientific Theories With the Phenomenology of Consciousness.
Frontiers in human neuroscience January 1, 2021 Jesse J Winters 8 citations
A new theory of consciousness, the Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape (TICL), proposes that the neural correlate of consciousness is a structure of temporally integrated causality spanning a large portion of the thalamocortical system. This structure contains subsystems with higher levels of temporally-integrated causality than the whole, each existing as meaningful content from the system's point of view. The theory is compared with five major neuroscientific theories of consciousness using five characteristics of phenomenal consciousness. Although the theories emphasize different evidence, they share fundamental agreements, suggesting possible convergence. A key dividing feature is spatial and temporal nesting, which does not align with whether theories explicitly invoke EM fields.