Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
altered states
Walter Freeman and the Order of William James
The Society for Mind Brain Sciences aims to quicken public and scientific interest in consciousness science. It is worth recalling that in the United States consciousness science was among the earliest topics considered in the ...
abnormal psych
Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks
TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
Why Con
Not conscious yet
I heard about Ramona from Ray Kurzweil. Ramona is a chatbot. Ray said she is a good conversationalist. Better than a chess playing dog with a weak end game. I really like Ray. He’s a great inventor, and a futurist with an .86...
brain science
We never know what we are talking about
Bertrand Russell said it. But when we try to talk about some things in neuroscience including consciousness science, mathematics creeps in on little cat feet. One of those things is patterns. Cook up a big ol’ heap o’ data,...
Cool Runnings
Putting the weird back into the hard
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon with the kind of weirdness we have come to appreciate in worlds of the Planck regime. The search for understanding in consciousness science leaves no formalism unexamined. Serious people are...
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Mind, meet brain? Howwayya?
I live in a little room called my mind, a warm and homey place. Sure it gets a little messy now and then, and I feel like cleaning out the mess, but then it’s my mind, and don’t you criticize what you can’t u...
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Welcome! To all MBScientists, MBStudents, MBFans…
Everybody has a mind. Everybody has a brain. Not everybody explores the mind-brain using science. There are many ways — the arts, personal relationships, looking at other conscious creatures in the world. We are living ...
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Consciousness Online: Jesse Prinz on the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Jesse Prinz, a philosopher at the City University of New York, takes up the question of the unity of consciousness. He then explores the implications and experimental support for this claim.
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Consciousness Online: Colin Clifford on the Neural Signature of Consciousness
Colin Clifford, a psychologist at the University of Sydney, is involved in the so-called mind reading movement in neuroscience. In this video presentation, Clifford offers an accessible and rigorous introduction to this new an...
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Consciousness Online: Hakwan Lau on the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness
Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Donders Institute, is interested in empirically testing philosophical theories of consciousness. In this talk he presents the results of his experiments that...