Diaz, Jose Luis. “A Patterned Process Approach to Brain, Consciousness, and Behavior.”  Philosophical Psychology 10, no.2 (1997): 179-95.

Abstract

The architecture of brain, consciousness and behavioral processes is shown to be formally similar in that all three may be conceived and depicted as Petri net patterned processes structured by a series of elements occurring or becoming active in stochastic succession, in parallel, with different rhythms of temporal interaction and with a distinct qualitative manifestation in the spatio-temporal domain. A patterned process theory is derived from the isomorphic features of the models and contrasted with connectionist, dynamic system notions. This empirically derived formulation is considered to be optimally compatible with the dual aspect theory in that the foundation of the diverse aspects would be a highly structured and dynamic process, the psychophysical neutral “ground” of mind and matter posed by dual aspect and neutral monist theories.