Animal and Machine Consciousness
... But I believe I do not need to spend much time making the point that although IBM’s “Deep Blue” could beat Kasparov at chess, it is computationally powerful, but the intelligence is in its design. ...
... But I believe I do not need to spend much time making the point that although IBM’s “Deep Blue” could beat Kasparov at chess, it is computationally powerful, but the intelligence is in its design. ...
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... matter of the brain during neurosurgery. They produce the highest quality signals of BCI devices . Prone to building up of scar-tissue Targeted repairing damaged sight and providing new functionality to paralyzed people (neuroprosthetics). ...
... matter of the brain during neurosurgery. They produce the highest quality signals of BCI devices . Prone to building up of scar-tissue Targeted repairing damaged sight and providing new functionality to paralyzed people (neuroprosthetics). ...
The Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
... and “nothing that it’s like for one to be in a qualitative state that isn’t conscious,” (p. 10). The sensory qualities of the first-order states (that is to say, the starred properties) play no role in determining the phenomenal character of a conscious experience other than that of concept acquisit ...
... and “nothing that it’s like for one to be in a qualitative state that isn’t conscious,” (p. 10). The sensory qualities of the first-order states (that is to say, the starred properties) play no role in determining the phenomenal character of a conscious experience other than that of concept acquisit ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... he sees re-entry as a flow of ‘information’ (that word again!) between different areas. As Zeman explains it, these ‘allow local cortical circuits to perform their specialised ‘segregated’ functions while at the same time entering into a ‘unifying dialogue’’ (p. 289). I cannot see how the functional ...
... he sees re-entry as a flow of ‘information’ (that word again!) between different areas. As Zeman explains it, these ‘allow local cortical circuits to perform their specialised ‘segregated’ functions while at the same time entering into a ‘unifying dialogue’’ (p. 289). I cannot see how the functional ...
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience - Filosofia - nihilsibi
... In searching for an alternative, a key observation is that not all entities in science are explained in terms of more basic entities. In physics, for example, space-time, mass and charge (among other things) are regarded as fundamental features of the world, as they are not reducible to anything sim ...
... In searching for an alternative, a key observation is that not all entities in science are explained in terms of more basic entities. In physics, for example, space-time, mass and charge (among other things) are regarded as fundamental features of the world, as they are not reducible to anything sim ...
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
... Chalmers calls the hard problem: a full accounting visual cortical area will still be associated with a difof the manner in which subjective experience arisference in the motor stages. The implication is that es from these cerebral processes. we can never explain to other people the subjecWe commend ...
... Chalmers calls the hard problem: a full accounting visual cortical area will still be associated with a difof the manner in which subjective experience arisference in the motor stages. The implication is that es from these cerebral processes. we can never explain to other people the subjecWe commend ...
Hypnosis Handout - Updated 2016
... (ECS) into different streams. Part of the ECS functions normally, but is unable to represent itself in conscious awareness due to the presence of an 'amnesic barrier'. Hypnotic suggestions act on the dissociated part of the ECS and the subject is aware of the results of the suggestions, but is not a ...
... (ECS) into different streams. Part of the ECS functions normally, but is unable to represent itself in conscious awareness due to the presence of an 'amnesic barrier'. Hypnotic suggestions act on the dissociated part of the ECS and the subject is aware of the results of the suggestions, but is not a ...
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
... Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is extraordinarily hard to reconcile it with everything else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly arise ...
... Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is extraordinarily hard to reconcile it with everything else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly arise ...
*What Is Consciousness?*
... Why Introspective Consciousness? His idea is that it plays a role in controlling and regulating our mental processes: it’s “much easier to achieve integration of the states and activities, to get them working together in the complex and sophisticated ways necessary to achieve complex and sophistica ...
... Why Introspective Consciousness? His idea is that it plays a role in controlling and regulating our mental processes: it’s “much easier to achieve integration of the states and activities, to get them working together in the complex and sophisticated ways necessary to achieve complex and sophistica ...
Key to midterm - UCSD Cognitive Science
... in the individual. According to Vernon, the theta rhythm is a slow rhythm which correlates with working memory and the SMR is found over sensorimotor areas and correlates with attention. Theta rhythms have also been implicated in “internal” states and processes such as meditation or deep contemplat ...
... in the individual. According to Vernon, the theta rhythm is a slow rhythm which correlates with working memory and the SMR is found over sensorimotor areas and correlates with attention. Theta rhythms have also been implicated in “internal” states and processes such as meditation or deep contemplat ...
Philip Buss - the IDeA Lab!
... other words, his visuospatial skills are intact. However, when told to pick up an object in front of him, he shows complete incompetence. He gropes “blindly” toward an object which he can see perfectly. His visuomotor abilities are completely impaired. A very interesting discovery was made in a rece ...
... other words, his visuospatial skills are intact. However, when told to pick up an object in front of him, he shows complete incompetence. He gropes “blindly” toward an object which he can see perfectly. His visuomotor abilities are completely impaired. A very interesting discovery was made in a rece ...
Phenomenology without conscious access is a form of
... project from the back to the front of cortex and their targets in the front that project back to the upper stages of the ventral pathway (possibly involving stages of the thalamus, such as the pulvinar [Crick & Koch 1998b], and the claustrum [Crick & Koch 2005]). The subject now consciously sees the ...
... project from the back to the front of cortex and their targets in the front that project back to the upper stages of the ventral pathway (possibly involving stages of the thalamus, such as the pulvinar [Crick & Koch 1998b], and the claustrum [Crick & Koch 2005]). The subject now consciously sees the ...
a preliminary answer... - Vienna Conference on Consciousness
... transition. Remember: the work that would be done by the homunculus in the Cartesian Theater is distributed in time as well as space. The tennis player returning serve does not have to wait 300 milliseconds to become “fully conscious” of the serve’s trajectory before shaping her return, and a quick- ...
... transition. Remember: the work that would be done by the homunculus in the Cartesian Theater is distributed in time as well as space. The tennis player returning serve does not have to wait 300 milliseconds to become “fully conscious” of the serve’s trajectory before shaping her return, and a quick- ...
Misrepresentation, empty HOTs, and intrinsic HOTs: A reply to
... hold that HOTs are “necessarily accurate” and that I “guarantee” a match between a HOT and its target, this is very misleading or at least oversimplified. So let’s look more closely: First, if we think about the intrinsic/extrinsic issue from a third-person neurophysiological perspective, there is ...
... hold that HOTs are “necessarily accurate” and that I “guarantee” a match between a HOT and its target, this is very misleading or at least oversimplified. So let’s look more closely: First, if we think about the intrinsic/extrinsic issue from a third-person neurophysiological perspective, there is ...
article - My Haiku
... consciousness. Because the observers never actually saw the naked images, they had no idea they were attracted or repelled by them. This experiment is scary because it seems as if people’s sexual orientation could be inferred (statistically) from their unconscious attentional biases. An example of t ...
... consciousness. Because the observers never actually saw the naked images, they had no idea they were attracted or repelled by them. This experiment is scary because it seems as if people’s sexual orientation could be inferred (statistically) from their unconscious attentional biases. An example of t ...
Quantum explanations of consciousness: A “Just So” story?.
... For a specific example: Why are you, the reader, conscious of the name ‘Heisenberg’ as you read it, while you will not be conscious of it a minute later? William James and Descartes thought that conscious events, as they faded, leapt the metaphysical divide between private subjectivity and the physi ...
... For a specific example: Why are you, the reader, conscious of the name ‘Heisenberg’ as you read it, while you will not be conscious of it a minute later? William James and Descartes thought that conscious events, as they faded, leapt the metaphysical divide between private subjectivity and the physi ...
Conscience and conscious
... Conscience means moral sense, ethical feelings or one’s sense of right and wrong. ...
... Conscience means moral sense, ethical feelings or one’s sense of right and wrong. ...
