Identifying Hallmarks of Consciousness in Non-Mammalian
... Most early studies of consciousness have focused on human subjects. This is understandable, given that humans are capable of reporting accurately the events they experience through language or by way of other kinds of voluntary response. As researchers turn their attention to other animals, “accurat ...
... Most early studies of consciousness have focused on human subjects. This is understandable, given that humans are capable of reporting accurately the events they experience through language or by way of other kinds of voluntary response. As researchers turn their attention to other animals, “accurat ...
Quantum Models of Consciousness
... which starts from the dual solution of the relativistic wave equation (Klein-Gordon equation). King states that quantum entities are always faced with bifurcations between past and future causes which require choices to be performed. King refers to the works of Eccles, Penrose and Hameroff works whi ...
... which starts from the dual solution of the relativistic wave equation (Klein-Gordon equation). King states that quantum entities are always faced with bifurcations between past and future causes which require choices to be performed. King refers to the works of Eccles, Penrose and Hameroff works whi ...
What is consciousness?
... our minds start drifting from thought to thought drifting consciousness is a state of awareness characterized by drifting thoughts or mental imagery ...
... our minds start drifting from thought to thought drifting consciousness is a state of awareness characterized by drifting thoughts or mental imagery ...
Text - Spectrum: Concordia
... (1962) of the University of Cambridge, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the quantum effects in superconductors (Josephson effect), proposes a unified field theory of quantum nature that would explain not only consciousness and its attributes, but also the phenomenology ob ...
... (1962) of the University of Cambridge, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the quantum effects in superconductors (Josephson effect), proposes a unified field theory of quantum nature that would explain not only consciousness and its attributes, but also the phenomenology ob ...
consciousness as an afterthought
... flows as indicator of neural activity and 3) communication (human speech – or signing – having no rival for effectiveness in this regard). The difficulty is that minds and consciousness are subjective and private whereas brain events are objective and public. Mental events violate the requirements o ...
... flows as indicator of neural activity and 3) communication (human speech – or signing – having no rival for effectiveness in this regard). The difficulty is that minds and consciousness are subjective and private whereas brain events are objective and public. Mental events violate the requirements o ...
Itti: CS564 - Brain Theory and Artificial Intelligence University
... from controlling one's own body, to using tools, to "using" another member of one's group to complete some action. As in blindsight, processes which coordinate a group member need not involve consciousness. For communication to succeed, the brain of each group member must be able not only to generat ...
... from controlling one's own body, to using tools, to "using" another member of one's group to complete some action. As in blindsight, processes which coordinate a group member need not involve consciousness. For communication to succeed, the brain of each group member must be able not only to generat ...
Baars - neurofeedback - Aspen2008
... which accompanies the work of a locomotive … is without influence upon its machinery." The uselessness of consciousness was enormously widespread in behaviorism. Some philosophers and scientists still favor it --- because they don't look at contrastive evidence. ...
... which accompanies the work of a locomotive … is without influence upon its machinery." The uselessness of consciousness was enormously widespread in behaviorism. Some philosophers and scientists still favor it --- because they don't look at contrastive evidence. ...
2011-10-10 Drup.ta /Tenets Geshe Jampa Tenzin Mind Only School
... this evening’s, and then they can be broken down to this minute, then a nano second. In this way the mental consciousness can be broken down into different parts and then we get to such a miniscule moment that can’t be broken down or else you will kill consciousness, they say. Space is another examp ...
... this evening’s, and then they can be broken down to this minute, then a nano second. In this way the mental consciousness can be broken down into different parts and then we get to such a miniscule moment that can’t be broken down or else you will kill consciousness, they say. Space is another examp ...
Too Ideal to Be Real: A Marxist-Inspired Critique on M.T. Anderson`s
... This indifference is seen later in the book, again in reference to Violet. He said “Violet chatted me to say she couldn’t talk, she was, I don’t know, learning ancient Swahili or building a replica of Carthage out of iron filings or finding the cure for entropy of some shit, and I was sitting aroun ...
... This indifference is seen later in the book, again in reference to Violet. He said “Violet chatted me to say she couldn’t talk, she was, I don’t know, learning ancient Swahili or building a replica of Carthage out of iron filings or finding the cure for entropy of some shit, and I was sitting aroun ...
consciousness as an afterthought
... flows as indicator of neural activity and 3) communication (human speech – or signing – having no rival for effectiveness in this regard). The difficulty is that minds and consciousness are subjective and private whereas brain events are objective and public. Mental events violate the requirements o ...
... flows as indicator of neural activity and 3) communication (human speech – or signing – having no rival for effectiveness in this regard). The difficulty is that minds and consciousness are subjective and private whereas brain events are objective and public. Mental events violate the requirements o ...
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
... thoughts to yet another scene. The number of such differentiated scenes seems endless, yet each is unitary. The scene is not just wider than the sky, it can contain many disparate elements—sensations, perceptions, images, memories, thoughts, emotions, aches, pains, vague feelings, and so on. Looked ...
... thoughts to yet another scene. The number of such differentiated scenes seems endless, yet each is unitary. The scene is not just wider than the sky, it can contain many disparate elements—sensations, perceptions, images, memories, thoughts, emotions, aches, pains, vague feelings, and so on. Looked ...
Consciousness. Ch. 11 of Mind
... now educated people will be amused that some philosophers in the 20th century denied that consciousness could be explained scientifically. But is there really a problem of consciousness? The philosopher Daniel Dennett (1991) argues that current puzzles about consciousness are largely the result of c ...
... now educated people will be amused that some philosophers in the 20th century denied that consciousness could be explained scientifically. But is there really a problem of consciousness? The philosopher Daniel Dennett (1991) argues that current puzzles about consciousness are largely the result of c ...
Osama Almughrabi
... metaphorical coin-toss is the view held by child psychologists and youth-development professionals that environment plays a major roll in the origin of the adult person. We now have on our hands a traditional nature-versus-nurture argument. When the coin lands on nature, the well-researched fact th ...
... metaphorical coin-toss is the view held by child psychologists and youth-development professionals that environment plays a major roll in the origin of the adult person. We now have on our hands a traditional nature-versus-nurture argument. When the coin lands on nature, the well-researched fact th ...
Binding the Mind - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
... H2O and water, and so on. The explanations of these correlations is not that photons cause light, that molecular motion causes temperature, or that H2O causes water. They are rather that light just is a stream of photons, temperature just is molecular motion, and water just is H20. My observations a ...
... H2O and water, and so on. The explanations of these correlations is not that photons cause light, that molecular motion causes temperature, or that H2O causes water. They are rather that light just is a stream of photons, temperature just is molecular motion, and water just is H20. My observations a ...
- Wiley Online Library
... statements about sensations and mental images are reducible to or analysable into statements about brain processes, in the way in which ‘cognition statements’ are analysable into statements about behaviour. To say that statements about consciousness are statements about brain processes is manifestly ...
... statements about sensations and mental images are reducible to or analysable into statements about brain processes, in the way in which ‘cognition statements’ are analysable into statements about behaviour. To say that statements about consciousness are statements about brain processes is manifestly ...
The Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
... Phenomenal consciousness is the property of there being something that it is like for one to have a conscious mental state. We identify this property as the one that zombies would intuitively lack, the one that Mary would intuitively fail to know, etc.4 So in the empty HOT case we can say that the ...
... Phenomenal consciousness is the property of there being something that it is like for one to have a conscious mental state. We identify this property as the one that zombies would intuitively lack, the one that Mary would intuitively fail to know, etc.4 So in the empty HOT case we can say that the ...
Stream of Consciousness, A New Dimension of Awareness
... But Freud could not establish the biological foundations of this unconscious power. He would have liked to and predicted that biology would some day give a fuller explanation of the unconscious mechanisms that underly our conscious turbulence, anxieties, depression and obsessions. But at that time r ...
... But Freud could not establish the biological foundations of this unconscious power. He would have liked to and predicted that biology would some day give a fuller explanation of the unconscious mechanisms that underly our conscious turbulence, anxieties, depression and obsessions. But at that time r ...
other minds and the origins of consciousness 1
... getting around in the world, feeding ourselves, and so on, does not depend on being conscious in this way, just on being sufficiently perceptive of ourselves and our surroundings. Sleep-walkers can go downstairs and make themselves a sandwich without waking up. And dead machines increasingly can imi ...
... getting around in the world, feeding ourselves, and so on, does not depend on being conscious in this way, just on being sufficiently perceptive of ourselves and our surroundings. Sleep-walkers can go downstairs and make themselves a sandwich without waking up. And dead machines increasingly can imi ...
4. Ethics of artificial consciousness
... and can awake religious feelings. Many people will question why at all should we develop such potentially dangerous systems. The main motivations come from the military and commercial applications. But the dangers are obvious and these issues must become a ...
... and can awake religious feelings. Many people will question why at all should we develop such potentially dangerous systems. The main motivations come from the military and commercial applications. But the dangers are obvious and these issues must become a ...
1 - users.cs.umn.edu - University of Minnesota
... Advanced research in the fields of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science and Physics is setting a stage for understanding the architecture of mind. This paper portrays a totally new role for consciousness and emotion. Consciousness is employed by mind as a tool for filtering ...
... Advanced research in the fields of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science and Physics is setting a stage for understanding the architecture of mind. This paper portrays a totally new role for consciousness and emotion. Consciousness is employed by mind as a tool for filtering ...
Body, Mind and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections Zhihua
... similar to the threefold division of human life into body, mind and soul among the medieval Christian philosophers. The aspect of spirit or soul is called puruṣa by the Sāṃkhyas, or ātman by many other schools. It is also the ātman that is denied by the Buddhist teaching of no-self (an-ātman). The ...
... similar to the threefold division of human life into body, mind and soul among the medieval Christian philosophers. The aspect of spirit or soul is called puruṣa by the Sāṃkhyas, or ātman by many other schools. It is also the ātman that is denied by the Buddhist teaching of no-self (an-ātman). The ...
CHANGING TRENDS IN RADICAL THEOLOGY
... intend a quest for fun. He means rather the attitude toward reality which we have in "games." We do not confuse the rules of games with an immutable reality. They are conventions of our imagination subject to change (in baseball, for example, when the pitchers got too far ahead of the hitters, the s ...
... intend a quest for fun. He means rather the attitude toward reality which we have in "games." We do not confuse the rules of games with an immutable reality. They are conventions of our imagination subject to change (in baseball, for example, when the pitchers got too far ahead of the hitters, the s ...
The Mystery of Consciousness Continues June 9, 2011 John R
... there is no way to understand the sort of self that he describes without supposing that it is already conscious. He frequently uses words like “primordial feeling” and “emotion” to describe the self. It is hard to understand these in a way that does not imply consciousness. This account is therefore ...
... there is no way to understand the sort of self that he describes without supposing that it is already conscious. He frequently uses words like “primordial feeling” and “emotion” to describe the self. It is hard to understand these in a way that does not imply consciousness. This account is therefore ...
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.