The more fundamental consciousness is to basic animal functioning, the more widely distributed and ancient consciousness must be; if, however, consciousness is relatively modular, functionally narrow, and conceptually high level, then it should be narrowly distributed among animals and relatively recently evolved.
DC: This program, Timeless You, says that your fundamental core consciousness, your spirit, is indeed timeless.
"It's the only really promising fundamental theory of consciousness".
The question raises a fundamental issue of consciousness: how much of what we perceive exists outside of us and how much is a product of our minds?
Will darkness really bring about some fundamental shift of consciousness or a moment or two of epiphanic enlightenment (as Holler – perhaps in with a cut – semi-seriously suggests)?
Since the late 1980s, and especially the late 1990s, a variety of writers working in philosophy of mind have focused on the fundamental character of consciousness, ultimately a phenomenological issue.
The recent ascendance of cognitive phenomenology in philosophy has important implications for biologically-inspired cognitive architectures and the role that these models can play in understanding the fundamental nature of consciousness.
Respected physicists like John Archibald Wheeler, Sir Arthur Eddington, Freeman Dysonn, Hans-Peter Dürr, Henry Stapp, Sir Roger Penrose, Eugene Wigner, Erwin Schrodinger, and Werner Heisenberg suggest a fundamental role for consciousness in quantum theory and a mental component at the level of biological organisms and the universe itself.
But our interest in sustainable communities should drive a more fundamental awakening: A consciousness that we can -- indeed, we must -- empower ourselves to manage the complex social and physical forces that sustain life to produce community well-being.
The mouse may thus possess a sufficient number of building blocks to make the scientific investigation of the fundamentals of minimal consciousness of relevant interest.
It offers also the possibility of joint investigations at the behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels, together with an easy access to a large spectrum of techniques (from molecular genetics to brain imaging), making possible the investigation of what may be referred to as the fundamentals of minimal consciousness.
