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(1) Our thesis is that consciousness (C) is a mechanism, a neural brain mechanism, a dual left/right brain mechanism. Receptive fields are increasing to become global in Brodmann Area 10 (BA10) Ego cluster neurons. Inner C (IC) resides in the left brain and outer C (OC) in the right brain. IC is noumenal; OC is phenomenal. Phenomena are spatial, geometric-continuous, are images. Noumena are temporal, logical-sequential, are structures. (2) The precise role of each of two regions BA10, in either of the left/right cerebral hemispheres can be clarified. Brain, BA10 left: I, in my interior castle and greater abstract universe, my noumenal cosmos in the temporal sense. Brain, BA10 right: I, in my environment and larger physical universe, my noumenal cosmos in its spatial sense. (3) Kant’s Oneness function. BA10 provides for oneness (O), a function of the human mind identified by Immanuel Kant as central for experience (E) to occur, forming a unified general experience, which he also calls one experience, interconnected experience, or even experience in general in his Critiques, expounding transcendental metaphysics. (4) Ego Cluster & Global Receptive Field, or Field of Receptivity. The receptive fields of neurons grow progressively larger, increasing in extent and logical depth along the ventral path & eventually become global in the Ego cluster Brodmann Area 10 (BA10), where the white matter tracts of the sensory ventral path terminate. (5) Top-Down (T-D), Bottom-Up (B-U). The inner cosmos, our soul, arises as a top-down nearly free creation, based upon in almost total disregard of bottom-up constraints, the chaotic circumstances in the exterior world. The reason is that the bottom-up approach to interpreting sensory data is unmanagable, hopelessly inefficient & simply impracticable. If it ever succeeds, it still is too slow & bound to fail in the end, due to phenomenal structures being enormously complex and variable. (6) Internal Structural Historical Record (ISHR). Our understanding is based on linguistic expressions for phenomena that we encounter and register as phenomenal engrams in the neurons of the brain, through acquisition of the logos inherent in the relevant aspects of any phenomena, possessing pre-linguistic structure, in form of internal structures, counting for historical record, ISHR.
(7) While the human soul reflects the glory of the divine mysteries of the universe, as we, like no other creature on Earth, uniquely understand the totality of it, with certain inherent limitations, yet there never will be a time when its true nature & origins are revealed to any living rational being, Aristotle’s rational animal, ζώον λόγον έχων.
(8) To comprehend consciousness we require full & radical holistic thinking, the noumenal cosmos. We have holistic-cosmic consciousness, our consciousness, a spatiotemporal developing record-system, it extends to the most distant galaxies, in our noumenal cosmos, & down to the elementary particles and quantum foam. (9) The life of the free-floating soul, I am, therefore I am a conscious soul, although in reverse, effectively is what Descartes was saying, unawares. Our existence is identical with our consciousness, but nonetheless delivered up to the futility of fate. (10) The human conscious existence amounts to a noumenal cosmos, an internally held world model, which has many antecedents in the history of philosophy. We can’t be conscious of a few things or of part of the world. The point is the Being-Question (Heidegger, 1935). We are conscious because we are, we exist. Descartes taken in reverse.
We need this kind of a dual brain, dual C. The reason is that the OC is for the instant, the present moment in time the current, momentary scene in the immediate environment, and future anticipation, while neurons of IC are for the past, which provides us with a general experience, the noumenal cosmos, upon the basis of which we can form judgment for the actions of the present and even perform future anticipation. The present moment is at home in BA10, the past in the temporal lobes, both inner and outer. The residence of future anticipation is not yet known, and constitutes the main purpose of this essay.

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Kant’s inner and outer senses, orderly inner self and chaotic outer environment, brain laterality, noumenal cosmos, metaphysical gap, thing-in-itself, pre-linguistic structures (pLs), logos (or language) machine (LM), geometry and recursive mathematical languages as mental capacities, phenomena and their internal structural historical record (ISHR)

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