Consciousness and Sleep
... distorted-indeed, the body may even seem to have been left behind and is being observed from the outside. 2- Intense positive emotions: People who have experienced altered states of consciousness frequently describe them as joyful, ecstatic, loving, and tranquil ...
... distorted-indeed, the body may even seem to have been left behind and is being observed from the outside. 2- Intense positive emotions: People who have experienced altered states of consciousness frequently describe them as joyful, ecstatic, loving, and tranquil ...
Notes and comments - Paradigm Shift Now
... Quasicrystals are physical structures which may need QM to be described. According to Roger Penrose, the quasicrystal assemble cannot be obtained by a local adding of atoms one at a time. Rather, a non-local quantum mechanical process must be involved; something like an evolving quantum superpositio ...
... Quasicrystals are physical structures which may need QM to be described. According to Roger Penrose, the quasicrystal assemble cannot be obtained by a local adding of atoms one at a time. Rather, a non-local quantum mechanical process must be involved; something like an evolving quantum superpositio ...
DOC - Cognitive Computing Research Group
... however, with the advent of brain imaging, widespread brain activation due to conscious, but not unconscious, processes has been found in dozens of studies (see Baars, 2002; Dehaene, 2001). We expect further improvements to make our current hypotheses testable as well. ...
... however, with the advent of brain imaging, widespread brain activation due to conscious, but not unconscious, processes has been found in dozens of studies (see Baars, 2002; Dehaene, 2001). We expect further improvements to make our current hypotheses testable as well. ...
From Nerve Cells to Cognition: The Internal
... for perceiving the world, that perception is a constructive process that depends not only on the stimulus but also on the mental apparatus of the perceiver—the organization of the sensory and motor systems in the brain. We now realize that this constructive process also involves emotion, motivation, ...
... for perceiving the world, that perception is a constructive process that depends not only on the stimulus but also on the mental apparatus of the perceiver—the organization of the sensory and motor systems in the brain. We now realize that this constructive process also involves emotion, motivation, ...
A Cognitive Computation Fallacy?
... simulation of the operation of the human brain—a massively complex and detailed artificial neural network. If, at a very fine-grained level, each group of simulated neurons was functionally identical to its counterpart in the real brain then, via Dancing Qualia and Fading Qualia arguments, Chalmers ...
... simulation of the operation of the human brain—a massively complex and detailed artificial neural network. If, at a very fine-grained level, each group of simulated neurons was functionally identical to its counterpart in the real brain then, via Dancing Qualia and Fading Qualia arguments, Chalmers ...
Five reasons why Brain Research merits a change of Focus
... (Sherrington). Starting from local spinal reflex to somatic, autonomic and somato-autonomic function, integration is brain’s characteristics. The brain has handled the sensory world. The brain has also been handling the world of information. The latest imperative in evolution of the brain is to gain ...
... (Sherrington). Starting from local spinal reflex to somatic, autonomic and somato-autonomic function, integration is brain’s characteristics. The brain has handled the sensory world. The brain has also been handling the world of information. The latest imperative in evolution of the brain is to gain ...
The CEMI Field Theory
... range did not correlate with perception in V1 and V2 but strongly correlated with perception in the V4 visual area. The results, taken together, suggest the relationship that synchrony per se is the key correlate of consciousness, rather than any requirement for synchrony at a particular frequency o ...
... range did not correlate with perception in V1 and V2 but strongly correlated with perception in the V4 visual area. The results, taken together, suggest the relationship that synchrony per se is the key correlate of consciousness, rather than any requirement for synchrony at a particular frequency o ...
Searle on Emergence
... either from the sheer structure of neurons or from their mutual causal relations. I think that in speaking of an additional account of causal relations, Searle means not only mutual interactions between individual neurons but also those causal relations which occur only at the macrolevel and need no ...
... either from the sheer structure of neurons or from their mutual causal relations. I think that in speaking of an additional account of causal relations, Searle means not only mutual interactions between individual neurons but also those causal relations which occur only at the macrolevel and need no ...
A General Purpose Architecture for Building Chris Eliasmith ()
... BG=BasalGanglia(Rules()) thal=Thalamus(BG) ...
... BG=BasalGanglia(Rules()) thal=Thalamus(BG) ...
subjective beings with mental states
... humans. Shared attention is more than simply looking at the same thing that another person is looking at: it involves the additional qualification that the two observers not only observe the same object but also know that the other is looking at that object. It is a triadic (three-way) activity. ...
... humans. Shared attention is more than simply looking at the same thing that another person is looking at: it involves the additional qualification that the two observers not only observe the same object but also know that the other is looking at that object. It is a triadic (three-way) activity. ...
Buddhist View of Mind_home
... experiences according to whether our ego finds them: – attractive (desire, grasping at an object) – unattractive (anger, aversion, rejecting, repulsion) – neutral (ignorance that drives a view of reality that induces suffering; a definite state of mind which causes us to act in a certain way) – cons ...
... experiences according to whether our ego finds them: – attractive (desire, grasping at an object) – unattractive (anger, aversion, rejecting, repulsion) – neutral (ignorance that drives a view of reality that induces suffering; a definite state of mind which causes us to act in a certain way) – cons ...
Attention and Consciousness
... Attention selects information for cognitive process Selection may be shaped by emotion, motivation and salience and is under some executive control. Without flexible, voluntary access control, humans would not be able to deal with unexpected emergencies or ...
... Attention selects information for cognitive process Selection may be shaped by emotion, motivation and salience and is under some executive control. Without flexible, voluntary access control, humans would not be able to deal with unexpected emergencies or ...
Living in a Bubble: Dissociation, Relational Consciousness, and
... contact with the environment. Typical subjective reports include sensations of being behind a curtain, experiencing a strangeness or flatness, of feeling dream-like or unable to fully be present (Charbonneau and O’Connor, 1999). In depersonalization, the person feels detached from the self, and in s ...
... contact with the environment. Typical subjective reports include sensations of being behind a curtain, experiencing a strangeness or flatness, of feeling dream-like or unable to fully be present (Charbonneau and O’Connor, 1999). In depersonalization, the person feels detached from the self, and in s ...
Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
... an interdisciplinary field of research comprising psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind. The presence of philosophy in this list is telling. Cognitive science, although institutionally well established, is not a theoretically settled ...
... an interdisciplinary field of research comprising psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind. The presence of philosophy in this list is telling. Cognitive science, although institutionally well established, is not a theoretically settled ...
CHAPTER OUTLINE
... b) Jet lag is a pattern of fatigue, irritability, and sleeping problems that occurs when you travel across time zones. It is due to disrupted sleep-wake cycles. 2. Neurons of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), in the hypothalamus, appear to act as a built-in biological clock. 3. The SCN receives ligh ...
... b) Jet lag is a pattern of fatigue, irritability, and sleeping problems that occurs when you travel across time zones. It is due to disrupted sleep-wake cycles. 2. Neurons of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), in the hypothalamus, appear to act as a built-in biological clock. 3. The SCN receives ligh ...
Unit 8: Consciousness
... visual bursts of electrical activity which originate in the brainstem and are given their emotional tone as they pass through the limbic system. Memory Consolidation Theory: The parts of the brain active when we learn something are similarly active later when we sleep and dream. Brain-Stimulation Th ...
... visual bursts of electrical activity which originate in the brainstem and are given their emotional tone as they pass through the limbic system. Memory Consolidation Theory: The parts of the brain active when we learn something are similarly active later when we sleep and dream. Brain-Stimulation Th ...
Consciousness, Microtubules and The Quantum World
... You put a cat in a box. Then you have poison that can be triggered by a quantum event-perhaps a half-silvered mirror that you send an electron through. The electron has a fifty-fifty chance of actually going through the mirror. If it goes through, it triggers the poison. So there's a 50% chance that ...
... You put a cat in a box. Then you have poison that can be triggered by a quantum event-perhaps a half-silvered mirror that you send an electron through. The electron has a fifty-fifty chance of actually going through the mirror. If it goes through, it triggers the poison. So there's a 50% chance that ...
Anesthesia, Consciousness and Hydrophobic Pockets
... proposed as the "neural correlates" from which consciousness emerges. This view is favored by reductionist and functionalist philosophers like Patricia Churchland (1986) and Daniel Dennett (1991), as well as proponents of "strong" artifi cial intelligence (AI) who foresee consciousness emerging from ...
... proposed as the "neural correlates" from which consciousness emerges. This view is favored by reductionist and functionalist philosophers like Patricia Churchland (1986) and Daniel Dennett (1991), as well as proponents of "strong" artifi cial intelligence (AI) who foresee consciousness emerging from ...
Scientific American
... So we have to conclude that NDE in our study was experienced during a transient functional loss of all functions of the cortex and of the brainstem. It is important to mention that there is a well documented report of a patient with constant registration of the EEG during cerebral surgery for an gig ...
... So we have to conclude that NDE in our study was experienced during a transient functional loss of all functions of the cortex and of the brainstem. It is important to mention that there is a well documented report of a patient with constant registration of the EEG during cerebral surgery for an gig ...
Physical Neural Networks Jonathan Lamont November 16, 2015
... systems to adapt at all scales • Each adaptation must reduce to memory-processor communication as state variables are modified – Energy consumed in moving this information grows linearly with number of state variables that must be ...
... systems to adapt at all scales • Each adaptation must reduce to memory-processor communication as state variables are modified – Energy consumed in moving this information grows linearly with number of state variables that must be ...
Consciousness
... hemisphere If asked to select these objects with their left hand, they succeeded but they could not say why The right side of the brain doesn’t control speech ...
... hemisphere If asked to select these objects with their left hand, they succeeded but they could not say why The right side of the brain doesn’t control speech ...
3680Lecture29 - U of L Class Index
... Neural Mechanisms of Consciousness? • So how far does that get us? • Not all that far – we still don’t know what is the mechanism that causes consciousness • But we do know that it is probably distributed rather than at one locus • Thus the question is: what is special about the activity of network ...
... Neural Mechanisms of Consciousness? • So how far does that get us? • Not all that far – we still don’t know what is the mechanism that causes consciousness • But we do know that it is probably distributed rather than at one locus • Thus the question is: what is special about the activity of network ...
Chapter 7
... ■ There are several stages of sleep—from Stage I, the lightest level of sleep, to Stage IV, the deepest level of sleep. REM sleep is an active type of sleep characterized ...
... ■ There are several stages of sleep—from Stage I, the lightest level of sleep, to Stage IV, the deepest level of sleep. REM sleep is an active type of sleep characterized ...
Chapter 7
... ■ There are several stages of sleep—from Stage I, the lightest level of sleep, to Stage IV, the deepest level of sleep. REM sleep is an active type of sleep characterized ...
... ■ There are several stages of sleep—from Stage I, the lightest level of sleep, to Stage IV, the deepest level of sleep. REM sleep is an active type of sleep characterized ...