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The HI Mind Theories of Consciousness.
Four Theories.
There are four HI Mind theories of consciousness. Each covers a different aspect of human consciousness and, taken together, give a significant advance in our ability to understand consciousness and our ability to confirm that understanding through research.
The four theories are not co-dependent in the sense that those that prove inadequate over time will not invalidate the others.
The HI Mind Theory of Focused-Consciousness.
This theory cuts “The Hard Problem” down to size by concentrating on Core Consciousness.The theory adopts a model of the mind that allows for the diverse behaviour and states of consciousness that are evident in humanity whilst identifying the functions that represent the core of consciousness. This approach simplifies the problem of understanding consciousness.
Focused-Consciousness
Using the HI Mind Model to focus in on the core of consciousness.
The HI Mind Theory of Conscious Story-Telling.
This theory identifies the key components of conscious, the enablers of consciousness. These basic components are, I suggest, essential for consciousness to exist.
Conscious Stories
Component attributes of our consciousness.
The HI Mind Theory of Conscious Awareness.
This theory describes a potential evolutionary step-by-step process leading to the self-awareness that is at the heart of consciousness. This theory is similar to many descriptions of the evolution of perception and suggests how increases in complexity over time enables new capabilities to emerge.
Evolution of Perception
From crude sensing to consciousness.
The HI Mind Theory of Core Consciousness.
This theory proposes a physical brain-based process that could be the basis for our experience of dynamic consciousness. Self-awareness as both the observer of self and the object of that observation. This is perhaps the most novel of the theories presented here.
Consciousness in the Brain
A possible way that the brain hemispheres produce consciousness.
Taken together, these theories could offer a functional appreciation of consciousness as something like “Consciousness is the multi-layered shared awareness of self, following a memory-based timeline from the recent past to a predicted future.”
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