Authored by Florin Gaiseanu*
Abstract
Introduction: This article discusses the brain hierarchical organization/evolution as a consequence of the information-induced brain development, from the perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness.
Analysis: In the frame of the Informational Model of Consciousness, a detailed info-neural analysis ispresented, concerning the specific properties/functions of the informational system of the human body composed by the Center of Acquisition and Storing of Information, Center of Decision and Command, Info-Emotional Center, Maintenance Informational System, Genetic Transmission System, Info Genetic Generator and Info-Connection center, in relation with the neuro-connected brain areas, with a special attention to the Info-Connection and its specific properties. Besides a meticulous analysis of the info-connections/neuro-functions of these centers, a special attention was paid to limbic/cingulate cortex activities. Defined as a trust/confidence center, additional features are highlighted in correlation with the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, consisting in the intervention/moderation of amygdala emotional signals, conflicting opposite YES/NO data and error elimination in the favour of the organism equilibrium, the intervention in the certainty/uncertainty balance to select a suitable pro-life information (antientropic effect), in moderation of pain and in the stimulation of the empathic inter-human relations/communication. Representing the correspondence between the informational subsystems and the brain area map, it is shown that the up/down integration of information by epigenetic mechanisms and the down/ up evolution are correlated.
Results: The analysis of the functions of the anterior cingulate opens new gates of investigationsconcerning the involved intimate mechanisms at the level of cell microstructure, specifically on the compatibility with quantum assisted processes admitted by the Informational Model of Consciousness and the quantum-based models The discussion on the information integration/codification by epigenetic mechanisms shows that this process starts from the superior levels of brain conscious info-processing areas and progressively advances to the automatic/autonomic inferior levels of the informational system, under insistent/repetitive cues/stress conditions, pointing out an hierarchical functional/anatomical structure of the brain organization. Additional arguments are discussed, indicating that the down/up progressive scale representation is a suggestive illustration of the brain evolution, induced/assisted/determined by information, accelerated at humans by the antientropic functions of the Info-Connection center.
Conclusions: The hierarchical organization of the brain is a consequence of the integration process ofinformation, defining its development accordingly to the adaptation requirements for survival during successive evolution stages of the organism, information playing a determinant/key role.
Keywords: Information; Informational systems; Brain hierarchical organization/evolution; Information induced evolution
Introduction
In some recent articles it was shown that the human body activity could be assigned to two main categories, which were defined as poles or axes of the organism: information and matter[1]. The human body could be regarded as a bipolar infomatter structure, where information plays a key role for adaptation and survival [2,3]: on one hand the capture of information from environment is necessary for momentary adaptation, and on the other hand matter processing assures the body power and regeneration resources. The processing of the insistently transmitted information from the surrounding ambient by cues/ stress stimuli, or by learning and acquired abilities, is assimilate into the matter genetic structure of the body, and can be transferred to the next generation by means of epigenetic processes [4]. The intimate mechanisms of the transmission of information between and inside of the cells were explained also recently within the Informational Model of Consciousness, by information-assisted embodiment/disembodiment interactions [5]. The implication of such info-matter processes into the body activity and operation shows that information is a fundamental agent for adaptation and survival. Beside information, the circuit of matter, which can be defined as a metabolic axis of the organism, is responsible to sustain mainly the power/energetic/regeneration resources of the organism [4,6].
As it was stipulated recently [7], information is a key for the life and life origin. This was however argued in the previous Draganescu’s works, which founded/established a decisive milestone in the science of information in this domain, showing that information is not only a fundamental agent involved in the living, but also in the matter structuration [8,9]. According to his findings, the structuration of matter cannot be performed without the participation of information, as a deeply and actively involved factor, so the structuration process of matter is actually a consequence of the activation of ordinary (non structured deep layer) matter by information, which determines a sense and tendency for structuration. The following relation should be taken therefore into account: Unstructured Matter + information => Structured Matter. Moreover, a huge quantity of information is necessary to structure the living components to become an animate whole entity, according to the relation: Structured Matter + Information =>Living [9], as it was explained in detail earlier [10,11]. The human organism appears therefore to be a bipolar infomaterial structure with two poles/axes- information and matter, so the body itself can be defined as an informed-matter structure [10].
Starting from these outcomes and from the basic statements of the Informational Model of Consciousness recently reported [5], in this paper it is shown that information is not only a fundamental parameter to maintain the interaction with the environment and body itself, but also a key/determinant parameter for the brain hierarchical evolution and organization.
Basic Statements of the Informational Model of Consciousness and Info-Neural Analysis
Basic Statements
The Informational Model of Consciousness, shows that the architecture of the informational system of the human body is composed by seven main informational subsystems, assuring the management of its basic functions to comply with a fundamental objective: survival. Thisobjective regards the entire horizon of time:
(i) Reception/processing of genetic information from the parents (predecessors) as an Info-Genetic Generator (IGG).
(ii) Info-management of the matter-related necessities by means of the Maintenance Informational System (MIS) during the present existence time.
(iii) Info-genetic transmission of information for species survival in the future. However, the momentary or mediumterm adaptation for survival requires more engaged functions.
(iv) Processing of information for adaptation/correlation with the environment and body itself is assured by the Center of Decision and Command (CDC), responsible for the infooperability, info-processing/elaboration and transmission of the decision to the motor/execution elements.
(v) Center of Acquisition and Storing of Information (CASI), which keeps/offer the life experience data to CDC.
(vi) Info-Emotional System (IES) managing the emotional body reactions. A special informational activity is represented by the Info-Connection (IC) pole of the organism, helping/ assuring the life and body/mental equilibrium and normal informational work [10, 1-3]. This item will be furthermore discussed in detail latter(Figure 1).
Info-neural analysis
Each of these subsystems is connected with specific areas of the brain as represented schematically in the info-neural diagram in (Figure 1). IGG and GTS, mainly responsible for body development according to the age and the reproduction respectively, are mainly represented by the specific functions of hypophysis, situated to the lower part of the brain. With a size of a pea, the hypophysis has a very low weight, of only 0.5 grams. As small as it is, it plays an important role as a master gland, engaged together with hypothalamus to control the organism development and growth, managing the energy and metabolism, osmotic regulation in the body and water balance within the kidney, playing a role also in temperature regulation [11], functions specific of IGG. As it is to be expected, this also is involved in the control of the organism aging, as it was recently shown [12]. Hypothalamus is also involved in the sex/hormonal development and differentiated functions of female/male, influencing/determining distinct sexual activity and behaviour starting from the puberty age, by the control of the hypophysis secretion, while the basal ganglia seems to play a role in the inherited personality features and predispositions [13], specific of IGG. Defining the genetic transmitted support for the new generation as a matter-related information, within the Informational Model of Consciousness IGG is connected to the input genetic information.
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