Consciousness: Coherence of Modalities - A Theory of Global Neural States

Explore a 25-minute conference talk from the Models of Consciousness Conferences that delves into the coherence definition of consciousness. Examine the speaker's answers to key questions about the language of thought, the nature of coherence, and its emergence within the system and environment. Learn about structured nets as central to the data structure, with nets in different cortical areas linked by dynamic homeomorphic mappings. Discover how the mind's state trajectory is described as a sequence of brain-spanning nets, stable for brief moments. Understand the consistency condition that defines coherence and characterizes consciousness as a succession of globally coherent states. Gain insights into the implementation of this theory in concrete models of perception and its connections to mathematical concepts such as topology, fiber bundles, and category theory.

Christoph von der Malsburg - Consciousness: coherence of modalities