By Andrzej Kokoszka
States of recognition expands at the pioneering paintings of J.H. Jackson, delivering modern types for learning realization in either pathology and general altered states, together with leisure, sleep, meditation, and hypnosis. the writer clarifies differences among the neuroscientific and psychiatric elements of awareness; even as, his theories are rooted firmly within the biopsychosocial process. The book’s scope and the author’s awareness to aspect make it a piece of serious versatility.
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The information-metabolism model is based on an analogy with the structural organization of the cell, and attempts to describe information processing as analogous to energy metabolism. , it has its own border, analogous to the cell membrane; a control center similar to the cellular nucleus; a system for information distribution and processing, similar to the endoplasmic reticulum and lysosome; and a source of energy, similar to the mitochondria. At the basis of the theory lies a need for information input which varies with time, as is acknowledged by other theories of information processing.
Integrational efforts are conscious when they take shape in an act of will. Information metabolism is subjectively experienced as a pressure of sensation coming from the world outside, which man tries to arrange and sort out under greater or lesser tension and due to which the world of man’s experiences constantly changes its theme and color” (Kepi´nski, 1979a, p. 191), and from the world inside, which is made up of signals coming from the interoreceptors and man’s own mental activities: dreams, plans, memories, fantasies, thoughts, and the like.
These structures may be understood as an internal representation of the world and of oneself. , learning. Each engram or mnemonic complex consists of a cognitive, emotional, and executive part, enabling, respectively, recognition, appraisal, and action. Using contemporary metaphors, we can compare the brain to the computer, the hardware is the domain of neurology, whereas the software is the psychical life of psychiatry. During ontogenesis maturation of the brain tissue expands the “hardware,” which in turn, enables the introduction of additional software, which has to be introduced from outside the system.
