Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
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‘Consciousness signature’ discovered spanning the brain
From: Newscientist.com: Electrodes implanted in the brains of people with epilepsy might have resolved an ancient question about consciousness. Signals from the electrodes seem to show that consciousness arises from the coor...
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Mental Training Through Meditation Enhances Attentional Stability
A. Lutz, H. Slagter, et al. Article in Journal of Neuroscience Abstract The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impair...
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Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
From: ErvinLaszlo.com The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity and could also enable us to surm...
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What Makes You Uniquely You?
From: Discovermagazine.com Feb 2009 Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe. Some of the most profound questions in science are also the least tangible. What does it mean to...
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“What Babies Want” – An exploration of the Consciousness of Infants
From: WhatBabiesWant.com DVD Documentary starring Charlie Rose, Noah Wyle, and Joseph Chilton Pearce. What Babies Want is an award winning documentary film that explores the profoundly important and sacred opportunity we have i...
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Why Animals Are Biologically Conscious. The conscious brain has a long evolutionary history.
From: The Blog of Dr. Bernard J. Baars inPsychology Today To the best of our knowledge, consciousness depends upon brains, and brains are biological organs. In a boxing match, a blow to the jaw often leads to a loss of consciou...
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The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness
Article in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science N. Shea, T. Bayne Abstract Consciousness in experimental subjects is typically inferred from reports and other forms of voluntary behaviour. A wealth of everyday experien...
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Educate Their Whole Being
We have to rethink the fundamental principle on which we're educating our children. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.
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Am I Conscious Now?
A curriculum on consciousness is needed. Introductory psychology textbooks don’t address it, actually. Most have a chapter on “states of consciousness.” These include dreaming, drugs, hypnosis, even meditation, but not co...
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Liberation Biology
Imagine raising scientists (and others) to actually know they can think originally beyond the boundaries of what is known!