The transition from biology to phenomenology

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

Medical hypotheses Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI:10.1016/j.mehy.2025.111665

Erling Mellerup

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Abstract

Biologically, consciousness may arise when integrated nerve activity from e.g., sensory brain areas interact with brain areas showing spontaneous nerve activity. It is hypothesized that phenomenologically, consciousness may arise when the spontaneously active nerve cells that are affected by the integrated nerve activity feel this influence. Being able to feel something may be an evolutionary and fundamentally new phenomenon. and be the transition from biology to consciousness.

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从生物学到现象学的转变

从生物学上讲，当来自感觉脑区的综合神经活动与显示自发神经活动的脑区相互作用时，意识可能会产生。从现象学上假设，当受综合神经活动影响的自发活动的神经细胞感受到这种影响时，意识可能会产生。能够感觉到某些东西可能是一种进化的新现象。从生物到意识的过渡。

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Medical hypotheses 医学-医学：研究与实验

CiteScore

10.60

自引率

2.10%

发文量

167

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks ''what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer ''Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary''. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.