Past and future in a moment of time: the brain's biological access code to consciousness or why the human mind is not artificial

Dresp-Langley and Durup (2009; 2012) proposed a temporal resonancemechanism as the most parsimonious neurobiological explanation of consciousness andshowed how a ‘time-bin resonance model’, where temporal signatures of conscious states aregenerated on the basis of signal reverberation in dedicated neural circuits of the brain wouldbe able to generate an access code to consciousness. Beyond a certain statistical threshold,neural signal reverberation would produce meaningful temporal signatures in terms of specificactivity patterns which trigger, maintain and terminate a conscious brain state. Spatialinformation is integrated into topological maps at non-conscious levels through adaptiveresonant matching; it is not part of the neural signature of a conscious state. The latter wouldconsist of a purely temporal pattern code arising from long-distance reverberation and decorrelationof spatial signal contents or messages from temporal contents. Such a code wouldgenerated through the progressively non-arbitrary selection of temporal activity patterns in thecontinuously developing brain. The activation threshold of the temporal signature of aconscious state solely depends on probabilistic coincidences. The temporal neural signaturesof conscious states form the "natural" basis of human consciousness and involve memorycircuits at deeper non-conscious levels of perceptual integration. Although social pressuremay drive human consciousness in certain directions rather than others at a given moment intime, the claim that the human mind would be an artefact of such pressures is not onlyunsubstantiated, but ignores the whole neurobiology of what Grossberg in some of his finestwork referred to as "the adaptive brain