IntéroceptionL’intéroception est la capacité à évaluer de manière exacte son activité physiologique (par exemple son rythme cardiaque). Cette prédisposition est l’expression de l’activité de différentes régions corticales: le cortex somato-sensoriel, le gyrus cingulaire, le cortex frontal et le cortex insulaire. La capacité à ressentir les états internes interagit avec la cognition et les émotions. Un niveau élevé d’intéroception prédit des émotions plus fortes, condition importante pour les changements de comportement.
Conscience (biologie)thumb|La conscience, telle qu'elle était conçue au . Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris [...] historia, tomus II (1619), tractatus I, sectio I, liber X, De triplici animae in corpore visione. En biologie, la conscience regroupe le sens de l'éveil, la connaissance de soi et la perception de l'environnement. L'étude de ce phénomène a été longtemps négligée sur le plan scientifique, faute d'outils conceptuels et expérimentaux, tandis qu'il faisait l'objet d'intenses débats dans les domaines de la philosophie, de la métaphysique, de la religion et de la psychologie.
Déclaration de Cambridge sur la conscienceLa Déclaration de Cambridge sur la Conscience (en anglais Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness) fait référence au manifeste initié par Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low et Christof Koch, puis signé en juin 2012 dans l'Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) durant une série de conférences sur la conscience chez les animaux humains et non humains ; la Déclaration conclut que les animaux non humains ont une conscience analogue à celle des animaux humains.
Self-awarenessIn philosophy of self, self-awareness is the experience of one's own personality or individuality. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is being aware of one's environment, body, and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness. Self-awareness is how an individual experiences and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires. Neural basis of self There are questions regarding what part of the brain allows us to be self-aware and how we are biologically programmed to be self-aware.
Self-consciousnessSelf-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. Historically, "self-consciousness" was synonymous with "self-awareness", referring to a state of awareness that one exists and that one has consciousness. While "self-conscious" and "self-aware" are still sometimes used interchangeably, particularly in philosophy, self-consciousness is now also commonly used to refer to a preoccupation with oneself, especially with how others might perceive one's appearance or one's actions.
Conscience artificielleLa conscience artificielle, également connue sous le nom de conscience des machines ou de conscience synthétique, est un domaine de recherche visant à comprendre, modéliser et tester la potentielle conscience liée aux intelligences artificielles. Ce champ de recherche s'inspire régulièrement d'expériences de pensée telles que celle du spectre inversé, de l'argument de la connaissance, du zombie philosophique ou encore de la chambre chinoise.
Damasio's theory of consciousnessDeveloped in his (1999) book, "The Feeling of What Happens", Antonio Damasio's theory of consciousness proposes that consciousness arises from the interactions between the brain, the body, and the environment. According to this theory, consciousness is not a unitary experience, but rather emerges from the dynamic interplay between different brain regions and their corresponding bodily states.
Multisensory integrationMultisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent representation of objects combining modalities enables animals to have meaningful perceptual experiences. Indeed, multisensory integration is central to adaptive behavior because it allows animals to perceive a world of coherent perceptual entities.
Neural correlates of consciousnessThe neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) refer to the relationships between mental states and neural states and constitute the minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for a specific conscious percept. Neuroscientists use empirical approaches to discover neural correlates of subjective phenomena; that is, neural changes which necessarily and regularly correlate with a specific experience.
Neural DarwinismNeural Darwinism is a biological, and more specifically Darwinian and selectionist, approach to understanding global brain function, originally proposed by American biologist, researcher and Nobel-Prize recipient Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014). Edelman's 1987 book Neural Darwinism introduced the public to the theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS) – which is the core theory underlying Edelman's explanation of global brain function.
