Tag: #Attention #Consciousness #NeuralGain #SpotlightAttention #SelectiveAttention #BottomUpAttention #TopDownAttention #Thalamus #Amygdala #LimbicSystem #GlobalWorkspac#Intuition #Hallucination
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🧠 What Are We Conscious Of? Mental Focus, Neural Gain, and the “Spotlight” Mechanism
In the first part of our triptych, we saw that the brain is not a passive decoder of the external world. It continuously maintains an internal model of reality, predicts what it should register, and corrects its own representation when a prediction error appears. But this opened a new question. If an enormous number of…