title: Consciousness: the remembered present.
abstract: This chapter summarizes a theory of consciousness based on brain structure and dynamics. The theory centers around the notion of reentry--on-going recursive signaling across multiple reciprocally connected brain regions present mainly in the thalamocortical system. It recognized the fundamental beginnings provided by the complementary efforts of Ramón y Cajal and William James.
authors.affiliation: Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Edelman
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*