Conscious and unconscious thinking. Questions to an academic

Conscious and unconscious thinking. Questions to an academic

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But many questions remain. If thinking is a process and consciousness is a frame, how exactly is this frame captured? What does it carry? Anokhin speaks here of such concepts as conscious and unconscious. But what can be conscious and unconscious? Consciousness, thinking? Can thinking be conscious or unconscious? What mechanisms make it all (brain, thinking, mind, consciousness) work?

This theory belongs to Konstantin Anokhin, an academic at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He believes that there is a sequence "brain <- mind <- consciousness." To understand consciousness, one has to understand the mind, and to understand the mind, one has to understand the brain. To understand the brain, one has to understand how it "emerged" and "apply" the properties of natural selection.

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Meanwhile, there are others. For example, the one called Cognitome. Consciousness is like a kind of frame, while thinking is a process of transition between the frames, or states. Thinking can be conscious and unconscious. Thinking is not algorithmic.

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Here Anokhin introduces the concept of Hypernetwork Theory and tries to answer the question "What is the brain?" by attempting to explain how the brain, mind, and consciousness are generated. He then comes to the following conclusion: the brain is a hypernetwork organ, while the mind is a neural hypernetwork through which a living organism relates to the surrounding world. Consciousness is global percolations (seepages) between layers, or networks. It is penetration to the deeper layers through such "holes" in a neural hypernetwork that is called consciousness.

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Kind of "on top of" natural selection, emerged a mechanism that can be called cognitive progression. This, in turn, resulted in the complexity and diversity of the brain and mind.

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So far, we have described two opposing viewpoints:

Consciousness cannot be computed, being a property of physical systems (IIT).
We can reveal objective neural processes that accompany consciousness. This empirical evidence of consciousness is consistent with the idea that consciousness emerges from specific computations and therefore can be reproduced in computing machines (GWT).

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The process of transition between states, albeit we may call them frames of consciousness — is that what thinking is? Or is it about transitions between some other states? And do we understand the difference between unconscious and conscious thinking? Can it be that conscious thinking consists of a myriad of unconscious thinking processes?