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Falsification and consciousness [PDF]
Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021 Abstract The search for a scientific theory of consciousness should result in theories that are falsifiable. However, here we show that falsification is especially problematic for theories of consciousness. We formally describe the standard experimental setup for testing these theories.
Johannes Kleiner, Erik Hoel
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Daedalus, 2015 No one did more to draw neuroscientists' attention to the problem of consciousness in the twentieth century than Francis Crick, who may be better known as the co-discoverer (with James Watson) of the structure of DNA. Crick focused his research on visual awareness and based his analysis on the progress made over the last fifty years in uncovering the ...
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Consciousness, self-consciousness, and meditation [PDF]
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2008 Many spiritual traditions employ certain mental techniques (meditation) which consist in inhibiting mental activity whilst nonetheless remaining fully conscious, which is supposed to lead to a realisation of one’s own true nature prior to habitual self-substantialisation.
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The hatching of consciousness [PDF]
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021 AbstractPeter Godfrey-Smith’sMetazoaand Joseph LeDoux’sThe Deep History of Ourselvespresent radically different big pictures regarding the nature, evolution and distribution of consciousness in animals. In this essay review, I discuss the motivations behind these big pictures and try to steer a course between them.
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Consciousness and reflective consciousness [PDF]
Philosophical Psychology, 2005 An interactive process model of the nature of representation intrinsically accounts for multiple emergent properties of consciousness, such as being a contentful experiential flow, from a situated and embodied point of view. A crucial characteristic of this model is that content is an internally related property of interactive process, rather than an ...
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Objects of consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Current models of visual perception typically assume that human vision estimates true properties of physical objects, properties that exist even if unperceived. However, recent studies of perceptual evolution, using evolutionary games and genetic algorithms, reveal that natural selection often drives true perceptions to extinction when they compete ...
Hoffman, Donald D, Prakash, Chetan
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On the Character of Consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2016 The human brain is a particularly demanding system to infer its nature from observations. Thus, there is on one hand plenty of room for theorizing and on the other hand a pressing need for a rigorous theory. We apply statistical mechanics of open systems to describe the brain as a hierarchical system in consuming free energy in least time.
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Biology of Consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 The Dynamic Core and Global Workspace hypotheses were independently put forward to provide mechanistic and biologically plausible accounts of how brains generate conscious mental content. The Dynamic Core proposes that reentrant neural activity in the thalamocortical system gives rise to conscious experience.
Gerald M. Edelman +2 more
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Consciousness and Evolution [PDF]
Science, 1895 This is a psychological attempt to discover the method of the individual's adaptations; it has detailed applications in the field of higher mental process, where imitation, volition, etc., give direct exemplifications of the circular type of reaction. But if the truth of it be allowed by the biologist for the individual's development, it follows from ...
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Consciousness of Time and the Time of Consciousness
, 2009 This entry reviews different explanations of what consciousness must be like if it is possible for us to experience time and temporal objects such as melodies. Consciousness is characterized by a temporal structure and seems to involve a successive flow - the often-used metaphor of a stream of consciousness.
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