Informational Synthesis in Crucial Cortical Areas, as the Brain Basis of Subjective Experience

The origin and the functional value of subjective experience is one of the mysteries of the human brain. The question is whether subjective experiences are needed just to supply our life with any personal value (as expressed in the words of A.S.Pushkin’s “Elegy”: “I want to live, to suffer, and to think”), or whether they represent a necessary component of brain functions, and are behaviourally important.