Thanks for your rep Mud, but I don't see what you're yikesing about 
I don't see that as a particularly bold metaphysical leap but just what, in my opinion, logically follows from the known neural network dynamics of (some of) the neural networks of the brain, especially the cerebral cortex. In my opinion neural context dynamics... activation, competition, inhibition etc... predict what is readily observed in consciousness provided you equate neural representations with phenomenal representions of things in the brain's model of reality. In other words, in my opinion, awareness/focus 'flows' around consciousness just the same as activation flows around the neural network, so I see focus/awareness as a passive thing that simply reflects the most highly active areas of an equivalent representational neural network. There are still, and always will be, the hard questions involved in linking neural representations with equivalent phenomenal representations, but with that axiom accepted the rest is just too much of a coincidence to ignore in my opinion, so in the absence of anything better, I'm perfectly happy with that theory and it plays a large part in how I view consciousness and psychology in general.
I don't see that as a particularly bold metaphysical leap but just what, in my opinion, logically follows from the known neural network dynamics of (some of) the neural networks of the brain, especially the cerebral cortex. In my opinion neural context dynamics... activation, competition, inhibition etc... predict what is readily observed in consciousness provided you equate neural representations with phenomenal representions of things in the brain's model of reality. In other words, in my opinion, awareness/focus 'flows' around consciousness just the same as activation flows around the neural network, so I see focus/awareness as a passive thing that simply reflects the most highly active areas of an equivalent representational neural network. There are still, and always will be, the hard questions involved in linking neural representations with equivalent phenomenal representations, but with that axiom accepted the rest is just too much of a coincidence to ignore in my opinion, so in the absence of anything better, I'm perfectly happy with that theory and it plays a large part in how I view consciousness and psychology in general.
