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A Measure of the Consciousness Revealed by the Cerebral Cortex Spontaneous Activity

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Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing (ICCSIP 2018)

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Building a real artificial intelligence system is a big dream for human for many years. One of the main problems is that we do not have a good indicator to measure the conscious level both for biological system and human-made system. To solve this problem, we combined the method of human-made communication system (Radio system) and the major idea about the biological origin of consciousness, namely, the corporation of a huge number of neurons. And we proposed an approximate indicator: the frequencies of the spontaneous activity - very low frequency oscillation (vLFO ~0.03 Hz) and low frequency oscillation (LFO ~0.18 Hz). The results showed that the vLFO became faster and the LFO stayed consistent when the brain changed into a lower conscious level. Thus, we may probably try to build a bionic brain by combining this phenomena and other conclusion.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (61420106001).

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Li, F., Jiao, C., Li, M., Hu, D. (2019). A Measure of the Consciousness Revealed by the Cerebral Cortex Spontaneous Activity. In: Sun, F., Liu, H., Hu, D. (eds) Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing. ICCSIP 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1006. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7986-4_16

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