CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS STATES OF BEING CONSCIOUS

States of being conscious (S) can be defined on the basis of temporal information processing. A high-frequency mechanism provides atemporal system states with periods of approximately 30 msec to implement the f unctional connection of distributed activities allowing the constructi on of primordial events; a low frequency mechanism characterized by au tomatic temporal integration sets up temporal windows with approximate ly 3 seconds duration. This integration mechanism can be used to defin e S. P-consciousness and A-consciousness as conceived of by Block can be mapped onto these neuronal mechanisms.