title: Dynamic systems theory approach to consciousness.
abstract: The review of the main existing approaches to consciousness in the literature indicates that consciousness is multileveled and that humans have an ability to experience a wide range of its various states. The common views of the main approaches to consciousness are identified and considered in a three-dimensional model of states of consciousness developed by Kokoszka. This model is then described and discussed using a mathematical terms of dynamic systems theory. Since mathematics is an accepted tool for the description of the physical world, the congruence of psychological and mathematical models is understood as a meaningful support to the psychological one. Connections of the models with artificial neural networks and some applications in psychology are considered.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. kokoszka@psych.waw.pl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bielecki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kokoszka
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Holas
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011582:Psychological Theory