Dear Rita. Thank you for the wonderful theme that touches the topic of morality. You understand that dopamine can not explain the process of attention. Especially when it comes to respect for morality. The aspect of morality is especially important in the modern period of rampant media. After reading the headlines of newspapers and magazines begin to represent how immoral, those who wrote the article, and how truthful the information that is presented in the articles. So, I expect after you issue a stormy debate scientists (not the media).

Thank you one more time.

Vladimir

No one knows, and don't believe anyone who says they do.

Even providing a reasonably acceptable definition isn't possible at this point, one that indicates the relationships among the things we call "attention", "perception", and "awareness".

Nothing is impossible, if there is not a definition at least we can start to describe what we understand by attention, perception and awareness; they may have something in common, they belong to the mental activity. Now we get the proof by the test on mice that attention only can change the biological household of the body; the molecules come into action only by attention, which can be continue in perception and awareness.

Attention is different of thought, can it be that attention which is the cue of art can act deeper into the neural circuit as thought.

Also we can start to give gradual quotation to attention, which now can be measured, then we will see that the highest form of attention is love, because love can change the whole bio factory. 

If we speak about attention we can also consider the resistance for attention, why some people don't want to listen of look at something we try to explain. Also this is mental activity coupled with something in the brain, should this be a shortage of dopamine. Here we see that is has something to do with selections or a specialization of the neural network.

A brief census of your imagination, and of literature and film, should lead to the conclusion that virtually everything is impossible. And our current understanding of both quantum physics and astrophysics would put nothing itself into the set of things that are not possible.

In my experience studying attention, perception, and awareness, the more you try to understand these phenomena, the more you realize that you don't understand these phenomena. Scientific research frequently progresses to the point where what was previously thought must be rejected despite the lack of any compelling alternatives. The lack of adequate definition doesn't always come with an ability to describe, and may come with a discussion of why contemporaneous descriptions fail to provide a satisfactory relationship to data gained through experimentation and observation.

There is an immense amount of research on attention, perception, and awareness. The earliest forays of experimental psychology focused on these phenomena, frequently under the name "psychophysics". The methods for testing the responses of mice to various stimuli are well over a century old, as are arguments about their relevance to human activity.

But this research will provide some clues as to what systems in the brain are linked to attention fairly quickly. Many would start with the part of the brain that is closest to the outside world, the retina, and follow the optic nerves along their paths. Though mice are very fond of using their noses, and ears, rather than their eyes due to their preference for small dark places, which forms part of the discussion about the applicability of mouse research to human activity, and concerns about ecological validity when mice are tested in human experimenter-friendly well-lit rooms.

Regardless of eye or nose, they will form part of the systemic conundrum regarding the necessity to pay attention to the environment before paying attention to an element of the environment, and whether "paying attention" is the same thing in both activity patterns. Of course, you can also give attention to the same things you can pay attention to. Then you can think about how these differing transactional metaphors influence descriptions of attention and our actions in response to the environment. Certain non-Western traditions with a body of important observational data on the ways in which the human mind makes contact with the world, such as Tibetan Buddhism, would suggest that the metaphor of "paying" attention forms a negative relationship in comparison to the positive act of "giving" attention. Or perhaps going further, and considering that what is attended to and what is not is something received from the environment rather than something given to it, freely or at a cost.

Of course, the scientific goal would be to provide a definition and understanding of attention that isn't based on a metaphor.

Dear James, you give a very good answer, the best I ever read. To let the mice, in search of the cheese in the dark corner while firing her neurons as a memory of her first tip,  is a good thing, researchers spent too much time in the world of the animals without paying enough attention to certain prophets, artists, Zen and Taoism.

A very good idea is that we pay attention without realizing paying attention, this is a point. As you write very clearly we receive from the environment rather than something given to it.

Also that negative relationship of the Buddhism has a point.

Conclusion there must be an entanglement in a non-local way, this is all proved by the quantum mechanics, only here they stop thinking because the measurement fail and the system falls. But from my experience I got the prove that there must be an order in the neural circuits related to morality and love. In this region I do my research and I could prove that by just a telephone call on the right moment to the right person, a whole pattern got engraved and later enveloped in time in various actions on a certain rhythm.

The story is still going on... the archive of the person involved is laying probably in the archive of Harvard. (half by intuition and half by hearing say).

Beats me!

Can the working of attention be the key to the understanding of the quantum level of the brain. Selection and attention are encoded in the genes the same as morality but it all becomes very abstract also as there is no point where it starts or ends. As attention is retrieving to the implicate order and becomes explicit only in certain circumstances.

Why did we have to wait millions and millions of years to ask such a question, and why is there not a definite answer after millions and millions of years of selection?

Because researchers are dying and memory and transfer of information must find other ways of communication. The extraction of information of the environment from dead material has a loss we can’t define for the moment. We must learn different systems to keep the information alive; attention must be directed to many levels and must be multidimensional at once.

From the Boolian logic to the electrical solitons in neurons is a big step. Just a pity that we can't hear the 'sound' of the action potentials in the neurons.

I always believed that music has something to do with it, I invested in this domain.

Dear Rita, You are right, Scientists, unfortunately, are mortal, but, fortunately, Science is eternal. The eternity of Music is known since the birth of Heaven.

Vladimir, you are an idealist, which is a favorite point of departure; Plato his ideas are also eternal and what about the first drawings on the rocks, 30.000 years ago. Everything the result of attention. That attention has an unconscious dimension and is even inherited is something.

Attention carries a memory and a future, in this way it is nearly everything; time and action at once.

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Dear Rita, thank you. It is better to be an idealist than a rigid rationalist, who sows a just punishment (sometimes death).

Back to attention, if we agree that attention is somewhere present in the brain, never sleeps, has an unconscious side, it influences what is visually observed. Attention becomes a concrete environment for what the eyes are forwarding to the brain to see. 

As we unconsciously are thinking that light comes from above (sun) we see round objects as balls, if we consciously think the light source comes from below then we see the circles as pits 

I've found it in a book of Kandel where he interprets artistic works of Vienna with the research of Hube and Wiesel concerning the eye. In this context it was legal to print the pornographic nudes of Klimt and Schiele.

The eye is amazing.

 If a black line or edge is rotated on an axis before our eyes, different neurons will fire in response to the different angles. Like neurons in the retina, nerve cells in the primary visual cortex respond best to discontinuities of dark and light. That’s how Klimt found out that disrupted lines had a great effect on the viewer. Schiele who depicts his figure with greater emphasis on contours, enhanced the three-dimensionality of his image and emphasized the volume.

Kandel explains all this in ‘The Age of Insight’ to underline that art is sometimes the avantgarde of science.

The eyes are always amazing!

Everything is not black or white, but as what attention is concerned we can make a division in orientation:

destroying or preservation

expansion or conservation

competition or cooperation

domination or partnership

self-assertive or integrative

And these poles are sometimes very sharp outlined in politics, in scientific institutions, in business, sport, art…

Very often it is the independent scientist, journalist or artist who tries to integrate the new findings in a holistic frame. I think here at Ilya Ehrenburg, internationalist and Fritjof Capra from Berkeley university.

More and more scientists become conscious about this and are searching to develop a new paradigm that extends the border of academic research but integrate the whole of the ecosystem in the new philosophy. About all this I don't see open discussions in my city, people stays inside and get afraid to say their meaning. It is strange that in Ghent even there are nearly no Catholics anymore and just a few freemasons, the election of the new rector is just about these 2 poles. We see that the middle field disappears, not only at the top of power but also in daily life. Small enterprises have it difficult to survive because the rules are written for the internationals and big enterprises. On the day of independent research, May 10, nobody came to see my movie.

As we come in a time of extremism, something is going wrong and nobody knows how to reverse this trend. In France the new president keeps the center but the people worry about the future. The separation between state and church as well as the integration of church and state can give severe problems if there is no common aim.

Responsibility is a task for everyone.

Dear Rita! You are right, in reality there are always many transition levels (steps) from one category to another (for example, from black to white). Let me return to the question of attention. Ivan Pavlov marked the reflex "what is it?", which manifests itself in attention. Two main mechanisms are involved in the control of this process. On the one hand, neural networks of the brain are active, which provide a search for survival objects (conditions) through the discovery of new sources of food, partners (a higher level of motivation when making discoveries, inventions). On the other hand, neural networks of the brain are active, which ensure survival through the organization of behaviors that avoid danger (especially deadly danger) in the manifestation of motivation of curiosity.

Of course, what has been said above is only an elementary scheme of the most complicated processes in the nervous system.

Yes it is only an interpretation which fits in a certain environment, we can speak about the whole but never reach it, then this is called idealism. Idealism can become very easy a mechanical term next to expressionism and in between the quality gets dissolved.

Dear Tareq Abdhilkadim Alasadi! Thanks for the grateful words. Let me study your scientific articles on the mechanisms of memory more thoroughly. The first impression about the contents of these articles is very impressive. Thank you.

Vladimir

Could it be that attention is part of the auto-poiesis process, if we see the pattern it becomes part of life and get integrated into the structure of the neuron connections as an engram, Each attention could give a firing of the neurons and so re-create the mind.

Attention can be seen as a receptor; it means also a connection with the outside world. Attention has an inner and an outer, it's the core of consciousness

Hi Rita,

When we model visual awareness (computationally bases on experiential intuitive record) we can understand that there two forms of attention. One implicit that's operational on an holistic basis throughout contextual (peripheral) vision and the other more like an attractor operational in central vision via fixation.

Science is usually working with the explicit form but the uncomfortable truth is that implicit spatial awareness is prior-to (in temporal terms) what we like to consider as conscious attention. The explicit has to set within the implicit for it to have real meaning. Implicit spatial awareness 'presents' in-time or close to it. The chances are this is, in biological terms, a non-neuronal function (cell-to-cell)? Glial network and irons with the retinal Muller cell playing a vita role. 

Vision-Space models visual awareness and starts to generate technology that works on the principles. 

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Vision-Space-A-new-form-of-illusionary-space-based-on-perceptual-structure-not-optical-projection

About the difference of a neuronal network or a glial network involved, we never can be sure, as there are so many feedback loops in action. The mechanical point is not to follow.  Is it possible that to be surprised is something more as attention.

Thank you very much for explaining it so clear and relevant to the learning process.

Dear Tareq Abdhilkadim Alasadi! In your article there are many interesting ideas about different types of memory. Let me dwell on two figures of the human brain in an MRI scan. There are many relationships in the brain of a healthy person. In the brain of a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, there are many isolated areas. So, the brain of a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's is deprived of the possibility of a full exchange of information and the adoption of an adequate decision situation.

I nearly forgot my question, but it is indeed important for the evolution of mankind; at what we give attention, how does selection works and what we store for later use. all this is partly conscious and unconscious. So each thought we have or each dream we dream get stored and how it become stored we have no knowledge of that on the very moment. Only in what we do it comes at the surface. So morality is present at many levels.