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Empirical Constraints on the Concept of Consciousness
Commentary on Crick and Koch’s ‘A Framework for Consciousness’ As other commentators on the target article have pointed out, and as Crick and Koch themselves acknowledge, their hypotheses regarding the neural correlat...
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Inner speech and conscious experience
Imagine that scientists have been successful at designing a drug that “freezes” brain areas producing our internal monologue. After taking the drug you can’t talk to yourself anymore. Every other mental activity is fine, ...
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Does the duck-billed platypus dream?
You can see a dog dreaming: it twitches and whines, and its eyes move in “rapid eye movement” (REM) sleep. In fact, dreaming in dogs and cats is quite similar to human dreaming. But a recent study of dream patterns in the d...