Consciousness from the Bottom Up? Try Explaining Qualia

W. Alex Escobar wrote an article for The Conversation that tells you everything you need to know in the title: "Breaking down experiences into millions of parts may help explain consciousness." The rest is details about neurons and qualia (our perceptions of the looks, feels, tastes, etc., of nature around us). The important thing is that his model is a bottom-up approach.

This idea of bits of visual awareness is a bottom-up approach to explain consciousness. It is based on the general archi...