8 - GCP Dot
... forms of physical behavior than he had been rewarded for displaying in the past (through royalties, academic honoraria, etc.). If the books produced by Skinner are in fact merely the product of conditioned typewriter-pecking responses and the sentences within them do not express ideas, there is no n ...
... forms of physical behavior than he had been rewarded for displaying in the past (through royalties, academic honoraria, etc.). If the books produced by Skinner are in fact merely the product of conditioned typewriter-pecking responses and the sentences within them do not express ideas, there is no n ...
Contributions to the Understanding of the Neural Bases of
... an experimental approach to such a complex issue is finally possible [4]. The cognitive revolution in psychology was paralleled by the development of the field of cognitive science, whose practitioners included neuroscientists, behavioral biologists, neuro‐ surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, ph ...
... an experimental approach to such a complex issue is finally possible [4]. The cognitive revolution in psychology was paralleled by the development of the field of cognitive science, whose practitioners included neuroscientists, behavioral biologists, neuro‐ surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, ph ...
The Brain, Consciousness, and the Afterlife
... arousal and responsiveness (i.e., alertness through disorientation, loss of communication, comatose), and in identifying brain regions that mediates sensory and motor signals which induce subjective feelings such as self-location and the first person perspective (i.e., from where do I perceive the w ...
... arousal and responsiveness (i.e., alertness through disorientation, loss of communication, comatose), and in identifying brain regions that mediates sensory and motor signals which induce subjective feelings such as self-location and the first person perspective (i.e., from where do I perceive the w ...
Living in a Bubble: Dissociation, Relational Consciousness, and
... than a page with a decreasing horizon of awareness either side. Conversely, if I hear music in the distance and focus my attention on a parade several blocks away, I look beyond the roof tops to see in the distance and expand my world horizon, I am now conscious of events I wasn’t previously. In bot ...
... than a page with a decreasing horizon of awareness either side. Conversely, if I hear music in the distance and focus my attention on a parade several blocks away, I look beyond the roof tops to see in the distance and expand my world horizon, I am now conscious of events I wasn’t previously. In bot ...
SI L56 (upload) - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... An worldly ordinary person realises that the reflection of a face is not an actual face. From the perspective of this person, the “image of a face” is not an obscurational truth, but a falsity. This is similar to the earlier section where we talked about how form appears and exists in the perspectiv ...
... An worldly ordinary person realises that the reflection of a face is not an actual face. From the perspective of this person, the “image of a face” is not an obscurational truth, but a falsity. This is similar to the earlier section where we talked about how form appears and exists in the perspectiv ...
Consciousness, Microtubules and The Quantum World
... Alternative Therapies: So there's a difference between the cells in a dog and cells in a human? Or is the big difference between plant and animal? Hameroff: There's a much bigger difference between plant and animal than between lower mammals and humans. There's also a difference between different t ...
... Alternative Therapies: So there's a difference between the cells in a dog and cells in a human? Or is the big difference between plant and animal? Hameroff: There's a much bigger difference between plant and animal than between lower mammals and humans. There's also a difference between different t ...
What is consciousness?
... speedometer- “It doesn’t make the car go, it just reflects what’s happening” ...
... speedometer- “It doesn’t make the car go, it just reflects what’s happening” ...
Consciousness and Sleep
... Cortisol secretion- which is the adrenal stress hormone, also follows a circadian rhythm that is tied to the sleep period. Its secretion begins to rise shortly after falling asleep and continues to rise through the night. Illumination- The circadian sleep-wake cycle is obviously influenced to some e ...
... Cortisol secretion- which is the adrenal stress hormone, also follows a circadian rhythm that is tied to the sleep period. Its secretion begins to rise shortly after falling asleep and continues to rise through the night. Illumination- The circadian sleep-wake cycle is obviously influenced to some e ...
Pamllel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem PAUL THAGARD University
... Hence we cannot ignore the speed advantage of parallel over serial systems, since the time advantage of the former over the latter may in many environments make all the difference for the naturally or artificially determined survival of the system. This argument will be unsatisfying to philosophers ...
... Hence we cannot ignore the speed advantage of parallel over serial systems, since the time advantage of the former over the latter may in many environments make all the difference for the naturally or artificially determined survival of the system. This argument will be unsatisfying to philosophers ...
The Neuronal Correlate of Consciousness
... is that behavioral responses can be obtained under forced choice conditions, that clearly indicate that the brain has processed and recognized the respective sensory material and produced a correct response even though the subject may not have been aware of having perceived the stimulus. There is th ...
... is that behavioral responses can be obtained under forced choice conditions, that clearly indicate that the brain has processed and recognized the respective sensory material and produced a correct response even though the subject may not have been aware of having perceived the stimulus. There is th ...
Emergentism
... example, the Oxford mathematician has argued that some kinds of crystal formation are strongly emergent. Molecules add themselves to a crystal in such a way as form a particular crystal structure, but there is nothing driving them to move into those positions. It is as if the molecules are moving te ...
... example, the Oxford mathematician has argued that some kinds of crystal formation are strongly emergent. Molecules add themselves to a crystal in such a way as form a particular crystal structure, but there is nothing driving them to move into those positions. It is as if the molecules are moving te ...
BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS: LINGUISTIC
... some information and can use that information to control our behavior” (Chalmers 1996: 28). The approach, in accordance with Zlatev’s suggestion, acknowledges the manifold character of consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness is probably best characterized as “the subjective quality of experience”, e ...
... some information and can use that information to control our behavior” (Chalmers 1996: 28). The approach, in accordance with Zlatev’s suggestion, acknowledges the manifold character of consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness is probably best characterized as “the subjective quality of experience”, e ...
Disorders of Consciousness: Brain Death, Coma
... functioning was not sufficient for him to communicate his needs or to care for himself. His condition had progressed to the minimally conscious state (MCS), which is characterized by either minimal or fleeting and inconsistent responses that nonetheless are consciously driven and represent more than ...
... functioning was not sufficient for him to communicate his needs or to care for himself. His condition had progressed to the minimally conscious state (MCS), which is characterized by either minimal or fleeting and inconsistent responses that nonetheless are consciously driven and represent more than ...
Brain Basis of Samadhi - The New School Psychology Bulletin
... Lutz et al.’s complaint, and focuses more tightly on the neurological dynamics associated with a specific series of phenomena discussed in the Abhidhamma: the stages of meditative absorption. We will refer to meditative absorption by its Buddhist name in the Pali language: samadhi. A glossary of the ...
... Lutz et al.’s complaint, and focuses more tightly on the neurological dynamics associated with a specific series of phenomena discussed in the Abhidhamma: the stages of meditative absorption. We will refer to meditative absorption by its Buddhist name in the Pali language: samadhi. A glossary of the ...
Criteria for Consciousness in Artificial Intelligent Agents
... Determining the level of consciousness of a living organism is a hard problem. One could think that some sort of Turing test might be a plausible solution [31]. It is indeed what we do everyday when we perceive other subjects as conscious beings. These kinds of test that we are used to perform uncon ...
... Determining the level of consciousness of a living organism is a hard problem. One could think that some sort of Turing test might be a plausible solution [31]. It is indeed what we do everyday when we perceive other subjects as conscious beings. These kinds of test that we are used to perform uncon ...
Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses
... It only becomes conscious via vision and the body senses. The vestibular sense is therefore quite different from visual perception, which “reports” accurately to a conscious field of experience, so that we can point accurately to a bright star on a dark night. Vestibular input is also precise but un ...
... It only becomes conscious via vision and the body senses. The vestibular sense is therefore quite different from visual perception, which “reports” accurately to a conscious field of experience, so that we can point accurately to a bright star on a dark night. Vestibular input is also precise but un ...
Decoding visual consciousness from human
... Figure 1. Encoding of the contents of consciousness in a core NCC. (a) This classic sketch by Ernst Mach shows his first-person experience while he is looking out into his study. Experiences can vary along several dimensions (shades of brightness, orientations, textures and so on) and hierarchical l ...
... Figure 1. Encoding of the contents of consciousness in a core NCC. (a) This classic sketch by Ernst Mach shows his first-person experience while he is looking out into his study. Experiences can vary along several dimensions (shades of brightness, orientations, textures and so on) and hierarchical l ...
Fixing Functionalism
... of a person not only with identical behavior, but also an identical inner life. Logical supervenience means that there is also a necessary connection between physical processes and consciousness in addition to this law-governed connection. The failure of logical supervenience follows from the fact t ...
... of a person not only with identical behavior, but also an identical inner life. Logical supervenience means that there is also a necessary connection between physical processes and consciousness in addition to this law-governed connection. The failure of logical supervenience follows from the fact t ...
Can neuroscience reveal the true nature of consciousness?
... nothing new is learned about the nature of consciousness. I therefore propose a radically different approach. In this forward approach, conscious reports, states or actions are not taken as the starting point of which the NCC is sought. Instead, neural functions form the foundation, and with those a ...
... nothing new is learned about the nature of consciousness. I therefore propose a radically different approach. In this forward approach, conscious reports, states or actions are not taken as the starting point of which the NCC is sought. Instead, neural functions form the foundation, and with those a ...
An Analysis of Stream-of-Consciousness Technique
... The chief technique in controlling the movement of stream-of-consciousness in fiction has been an application of the principles of psychological free association. Among all the writing techniques in To the Lighthouse, the most confusing and difficult to follow may be the free association, for the co ...
... The chief technique in controlling the movement of stream-of-consciousness in fiction has been an application of the principles of psychological free association. Among all the writing techniques in To the Lighthouse, the most confusing and difficult to follow may be the free association, for the co ...
Chapter 7
... To teach, with the use of machines, how different thoughts and/or emotions effect their physiological behavior & how to alter those effects ...
... To teach, with the use of machines, how different thoughts and/or emotions effect their physiological behavior & how to alter those effects ...
Chapter 7
... To teach, with the use of machines, how different thoughts and/or emotions effect their physiological behavior & how to alter those effects ...
... To teach, with the use of machines, how different thoughts and/or emotions effect their physiological behavior & how to alter those effects ...
Fans and critics of globalist theories.
... Bottom line: "Conscious experiences provide the primary adaptive input to the brain: The evidence shows omni-phenomenalism, not epi-phenomenalism. Conscious experience is very powerful. (Slide 6) ...
... Bottom line: "Conscious experiences provide the primary adaptive input to the brain: The evidence shows omni-phenomenalism, not epi-phenomenalism. Conscious experience is very powerful. (Slide 6) ...
Mirror neurons and the 8 parallel consciousnesses
... waking hours, of external and internal images, of abstractions, actions, emotions, perceptions of our body and, in general, of anything that make us feel watchful. It also involves the subjective feeling of being present on the scene where events are occurring, and of being responsible for them in s ...
... waking hours, of external and internal images, of abstractions, actions, emotions, perceptions of our body and, in general, of anything that make us feel watchful. It also involves the subjective feeling of being present on the scene where events are occurring, and of being responsible for them in s ...
Lecture 6 HoT Handout
... awareness. Experiences are not phenomenally conscious in their own right, but become so only when we are aware of them in a suitable way. In order to be phenomenally conscious, an experience must be the object of another mental state: a higher-order representation. Different versions disagree on the ...
... awareness. Experiences are not phenomenally conscious in their own right, but become so only when we are aware of them in a suitable way. In order to be phenomenally conscious, an experience must be the object of another mental state: a higher-order representation. Different versions disagree on the ...
Consciousness
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: ""Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.""Western philosophers since the time of Descartes and Locke have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties. Issues of concern in the philosophy of consciousness include whether the concept is fundamentally coherent; whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how can it be recognized; how consciousness relates to language; whether consciousness can be understood in a way that does not require a dualistic distinction between mental and physical states or properties; and whether it may ever be possible for computing machines like computers or robots to be conscious, a topic studied in the field of artificial intelligence.At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many scientists, but in recent years it has become a significant topic of research in psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience. The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness—that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness. The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences (e.g., ""tell me if you notice anything when I do this""). Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by alcohol and other drugs, or spiritual or meditative techniques.In medicine, consciousness is assessed by observing a patient's arousal and responsiveness, and can be seen as a continuum of states ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response to painful stimuli. Issues of practical concern include how the presence of consciousness can be assessed in severely ill, comatose, or anesthetized people, and how to treat conditions in which consciousness is impaired or disrupted.