Same mechanisms for consciousness contents and level.

What is it about?

With support from a multitude of experimental data it is argued in this article that brain mechanisms involved in regulating the levels of consciousness and mechanisms producing the contents of consciousness are largely the same or substantially overlapping. This view is consistent with recent research on the role of modulation of multi-compartment pyramidal neurons (featuring BAC firing and apical amplification sub-cellular mechanisms) by the contextual input from remote brain sources for producing conscious experience.

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Why is it important?

Integration and call for combination of two so far mutually isolated approaches to consciousness both in terms of theory and research paradigms.