The MoM Consciousness Theory Posits:

• Human consciousness is centered around a central nervous system (i.e., the brain), the functional unit of the brain is the neuron. The neuron’s goal, corollary to mechanism, is the prediction of outcomes followed by the process of plasticization based on predication-to-outcome match/mismatch in the world. This concept is commonly referred to in the literature as prospection.

  • The process of prospection and subsequent plasticization in one’s brain builds networks (mechanistically) and patterns of behavior (the corollary action) for operationalization based on how one’s brain develops, these may not necessarily be what is best, right, objective, or most useful. We operate an internally-, experentially-built model of the world, we operate maps of meaning.

• As various complexities of goals and goal hierarchies form, along with subsequently more and more complex processes of perception, the human brain equally develops more and more complexity of neuronal networks (the mechanism) and cognitive abilities (the corollary action).

  • As certain levels of complexity of consciousness and subsequently the human brain form, termed modularities in the MoM consciousness theory, certain cognitive abilities simply emerge as emergent phenomena.

    • E.g., Piaget discovered the cognitive ability of conservation emerges (the goal) around the age of 7+ years old in children when their brains have reached the corollary level of complexity (mechanistically, via prospection).

      • Even if Piaget’s conservation is learned, a finding not exactly known currently, it still stands that a pre-requisite level of cognitive complexity must be met so as to be able to learn conservation. I.e., emergence is not pre-determined, but a set of possibilities at the necessary pre-requisite complexity.

    • These emergent phenomena which simply emerge at varying modularities of consciousness are termed dimensions in the MoM consciousness theory.

      • Dimensions of human consciousness have sub-dimensions, the sub-dimensions have sub-dimensions, etc.

    • One may think of consciousness and human consciousness like building blocks. Human consciousness has simply built up to a high level of complexity or modularity of consciousness, with a vast number of dimensions (or corollary goals via cognitive abilities) as a result of the complexification of goals and corollary mechanisms via evolution with gradual descent.

• Since there are genetic, epigenetic, and experiential components to the development of consciousness (via prospection mechanistically) it stands that individuals may vary in their modularities (and subsequent dimensions) of consciousness.

  • Alexander Luria demonstrated how individuals in rural societies lacked certain abstraction abilities possessed by individuals in industrialized societies, i.e., their dimensions of consciousness (and modularity) were lower due to the extreme thrownness of the time, place, and experiences of how their consciousness developed. Alexander Luria notably discovered this finding through the use of IQ tests, particularly the sub-test of Raven’s Progressive Matrices.