Maxwell Harrell

The development and plasticity of consciousness throughout an animal's lifetime requires neurochemical distinctions of executive and non-executive decision along phasic and tonic neurochemical allowance. Proposed hypotheses elaborate how consciousness and its continuum are chemically produced during continuous environmental rationalization and subsequent neural propagation. Provided mechanisms allow a developmental account of consciousness, attempting to ground major theories such as GWT, IIT, Predictive Processing, and Affective Neuroscience, among others. Single-synaptic phasic transients may have evolved to allow executive function and selective consolidation in tonic modulatory processing. This framing is consistent with phasic dynamics and tonic modulatory mechanisms, while each transmitter is differentiated by function. Phasic transients are further suggested to direct cortical spreading within tonic modulation; suggesting phasic events are correlates of executive decision within existing theories. Emotion theories including appraisal and affective neuroscience accounts are considered neurobiologically alongside phasic significance, specifying what these accounts leave chemically ungrounded. Specifications also ground what Predictive Processing frameworks extend with computations. Because each mechanism is defined biologically, falsifiable predictions and provided experiments can largely determine the accuracy of each claim; provided hypotheses are precise enough to fail and their correlating experiments are practical enough to proceed. Mechanisms allow clinical implications for depression, memory rehabilitation, educational environment improvement, emotional and trauma regulation, and general developmental intervention.

My name is Maxwell, I'm a young student from Portland Oregon. I'm personally inspired by evolutionary literature. Please come talk with me.