Consciousness is postulated to be how the human mind works. The human mind, conceptually, is the collection of all the electrical and chemical signals of neurons, with their interactions and features, in sets.
These sets are obtained in clusters of neurons. The interactions produce functions—memory, feelings, emotions and modulations. Features are the qualification of the interactions. This qualification produces what is sometimes described as experience—mostly the same as the functions.
In brain science, action potentials are established to occur along the length of the axons, with ions exchange, and they are said to be triggered by changes in membrane potential. Ions are also established to trigger neurotransmitter release from synaptic vesicles.
It is theorized that in a set, they are not triggering each other, but interacting. This interaction comprises of strike, to fuse briefly with each other, such that ions give off what they bear in set, while picking up what molecules hold in set, to be taken again by ions—further.
Simply, electrical signals, in sets, strike at chemical signals, in sets, conceptually. They do this to produce a new state, which is partly a mix of ions and molecules, but also a different state from both, from which the external and internal senses can be processed.
Different chemical signals often contribute rations that become the configuration for which information is organized. It is this configuration that electrical signals often strike at to access. It is also what they strike at to shape, during learning. Within the breadth of the configuration, there are spaces for which the features or qualifications of the interactions are possible. Electrical signals pickup and relay summaries of the functions and the features, conceptually.
Features include prioritization [or attention], pre-prioritization [or awareness], subjectivity or self, free will or intentionality, arrays, principal spot, split, sequences, distribution, thick sets, thin sets, meld or distillation and others.
This applies across functions, wherever neurons are located in the central and peripheral nervous systems, though those in the brain are more adapted to certain configurations that give them the lead in functions, as well as features, conceptually.
Action potentials and neurotransmitters are directly responsible for consciousness. This theory is mechanistic, within the brain, not anything metaphoric or distant from the brain to generalizations. The theory states what the mind is and can propound what goes wrong in mental disorders.
The total consciousness for humans, in any instance, is 1, regardless of state. This is possible by the sum of all features acting on functions. While a person is awake and alert, some features, like attention, awareness, self and intent get a higher value. When a person is not, there is no significant high mark for any feature as it is shared across several, but the result is still 1. This is because the features, collecting as consciousness, act all the time on functions that are possible and everywhere.
There is no consciousness somewhere and not in others in the brain. For other organisms and AI, the features and functions can be used to estimate totals, in comparison to 1, of humans.
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