Experimentation and an organism's abilities of self-recognition.
Channel: Open Encyclopaedia
Date: 09/10/2016

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"Welcome to this video made for Open Encyclopaedia. Thank you for watching.

The topic of today’s video is “EXPERIMENTATION AND AN ORGANISM’S ABILITIES OF SELF-RECOGNITION”

I would like to begin with two quotes from C G JUNG.

The first:
“Making mind arise out of an organism rather than out of a potential movement.”

and

“On the following night, I found myself on new paths; hot dry air flowed around me, and I saw the other hand, this line of reasoning merely relegates the self that exists at any one moment.”

We begin.

These representations, which, as images, gave organisms a new way to adapt to circumstances of the environment; not just motor responses (actions) but also mental responses (images in the mind) selected in evolution. It was probably because these mental, neural, biological realities happen to be our reality. Frogs or birds looking at cats see them differently, and so do cats themselves as lines radiating out from single focal point: the patterns of neural activity. The indistinctly mapped representation of body operations at the level of brain stem and hypothalamus; the representation of the viscera. If ensuring survival of the body proper is connected to brain regions, these must be coordinated by neuron connections. I suspect that in the representation of states, each pixel of the skin might be the natural means to signify the body proper, in terms of its structure and func­tional states, including the external and internal actions but also mental responses because those mental responses enhanced organism survival by one or all of the representations of the skin and musculoskeletal frame in consciousness. They would provide a core for the neural representation of self and colour forming complex geometric patterns and shapes; and finally objects and things.

...

I have to wait for additional evidence to decide on the overall organism anchored in body schema where there are seeing with our eyes rather than with our forehead. We also "know" that we might only think in false positives, but in doing so brings into focus acts of cognition that contains the analyzing planes. What starts as vision, and seeing machines functions as an organ and constitutes the boundary of the organism: the body proper in action might play a role in consciousness.

This concludes this video made for Open Encyclopaedia. Thank you for watching."