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fromPsychology Today
14 hours ago

The Mind's Eye: Mental Models in Cognition and Consciousness

Cognition is the capacity to build internal mental models from sensory representations that enable prediction, planning, and action beyond simple stimulus-response behavior.
fromBig Think
15 hours ago

Sam Harris: Experience emotions without being consumed by them

I mean, the amazing thing about our circumstances that each one of us is in a position that is in some sense, as free and as profound and as in touch with reality, as any other position in this universe, where you stand, the universe is illuminated as you, as your experience in this moment. And that we call this substratum of experience, consciousness, for lack of a better word.
Mindfulness
Science
fromBig Think
1 day ago

Why the 21st century could bring a new "consciousness winter"

Integrated Information Theory posits consciousness emerges from integrated information in physical systems, and causal emergence explains higher-level causal structures from weakly connected parts.
#neuroscience
OMG science
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 months ago

Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating.

There are numerous theories of consciousness, but many neuroscientists seek to consolidate them into a singular explanation.
philosophy
fromBig Think
1 day ago

5 brilliant books on consciousness

Consciousness is a deeply puzzling, potentially irreducible feature of nature raising hard questions about subjective experience across species and relation to physical processes.
Science
fromBig Think
1 day ago

Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness

Coordinated brain waves organize, carry, combine, and transform information and may underlie consciousness; anesthetics disrupt these wave patterns to produce unconsciousness.
#subjective-experience
#memory
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago
Film

The Memory Blocks review playful and purposeful exploration of developmental disorders

Andrew Kotting's film explores consciousness and memory through the journey of his daughter Eden and others with learning-development issues.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Mindfulness

What Remains When Memory Fades

Memory loss does not erase the self; love and imagination remain.
Psychedelics suggest consciousness can exist without autobiographical memory.
Identity consists of relational patterns, not solely stored memories.
Connection preserves dignity, emphasizing the importance of presence.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Remains When Memory Fades

Memory loss does not erase the self; love and imagination remain.
Psychedelics suggest consciousness can exist without autobiographical memory.
Identity consists of relational patterns, not solely stored memories.
Connection preserves dignity, emphasizing the importance of presence.
#near-death-experience
#ai
fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Robots Don't Improvise: The Art of Spontaneity from Brains to Bots | HackerNoon

AI development has been significantly influenced by insights from neuroscience, particularly in understanding consciousness and predictive processing.
fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Silicon Doesn't Dream: Why Computers Lack Brains' Biochemical Magic | HackerNoon

AI has been significantly inspired by the organizational structures and consciousness of the brain.
Artificial intelligence
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Robots Don't Improvise: The Art of Spontaneity from Brains to Bots | HackerNoon

AI development has been significantly influenced by insights from neuroscience, particularly in understanding consciousness and predictive processing.
fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Silicon Doesn't Dream: Why Computers Lack Brains' Biochemical Magic | HackerNoon

fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Introducing Quantum Stream Theory - Part One | HackerNoon

Consciousness theories are diverse and often contradictory, complicating the understanding and approach to its study.
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

What Makes Jokes Funny?

Psychologists and philosophers have developed competing theories of humor, claiming laughter results from factors such as superiority, relief, incongruity, and benign violations.
Humor
fromBig Think
4 weeks ago

How the illusion of self shapes your reality

The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies.
philosophy
fromA Philosopher's Blog
1 month ago

Immortality by Mind Upload

Consciousness defines personal identity, proposing that mind uploading may allow for a form of technological immortality.
philosophy
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Is Free Will Overrated?

The concept of free will is critically questioned by Robert M. Sapolsky, emphasizing that many factors shape human decisions.
fromAeon
1 month ago

How jazz and dolphins can help explain consciousness | Aeon Essays

Increasingly, organoids are being fused to create 'assembloids', complexes of interacting organoids. Sergiu Pasca's laboratory at Stanford University has created an assembloid that models the human spinothalamic pathway, a neural circuit critical for the transmission of sensory information from the body to the brain.
philosophy
fromApaonline
1 month ago

Intelligence is Always Artificial

For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial, with nothing natural about understanding, consciousness, or intelligence itself, challenging the idea of innate behavior versus learned actions.
philosophy
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Meditation provides calming solace - except when it doesn't - Harvard Gazette

Matthew Sacchet, director of the meditation research program at Harvard Medical School, indicates that meditation, while beneficial for many, can also lead to significant suffering in some individuals. This unexpected outcome has prompted calls for greater scrutiny by researchers and clinicians into the effects of meditation beyond its therapeutic applications.
Mental health
#philosophy
Psychology
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

LLMs: Towards A Universal Standard to Measure AI Consciousness - Sentience | HackerNoon

Consciousness involves subjective experience, memory, and attention, creating a framework to measure it in humans, organisms, and AI.
Mindfulness
fromNature
3 months ago

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature

The quest to understand consciousness highlights the challenges posed by conflicting theories and the biases in empirical testing.
Psychology
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

LLMs: Towards A Universal Standard to Measure AI Consciousness - Sentience | HackerNoon

Consciousness involves subjective experience, memory, and attention, creating a framework to measure it in humans, organisms, and AI.
Mindfulness
fromNature
3 months ago

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature

The quest to understand consciousness highlights the challenges posed by conflicting theories and the biases in empirical testing.
#panpsychism
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Default Mode Network as Core Consciousness

The Default Mode Network plays a vital role in consciousness and self-awareness across various mammals.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?

"Reflecting on one's life in a consciousness-raising session, Gornick wrote, was 'rather like shaking a kaleidoscope and watching all the same pieces rearrange themselves into an altogether other picture.'"},{
Media industry
Mindfulness
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

An Atlantic Reading List on Consciousness

Love for someone who cannot communicate is fraught with uncertainty, yet belief in their awareness persists among caregivers.
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

The Fear of Change

Out-of-body experiences can profoundly change one's perspective on life and death, fostering a newfound understanding of consciousness, love, and interconnectedness.
fromBig Think
3 months ago

Fringe or frontier: Is our current scientific paradigm still the best fit?

I think we've got much too narrow a picture of reality. What we need is a larger, more inclusive model of reality, which includes all these anomalies in the Universe.
OMG science
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

The Mind-Sabotaging Habit that Goes Unnoticed

Pure consciousness offers a pathway to deep peace, potentially transforming individual and societal conflicts.
Psychology
fromBig Think
3 months ago

Does physics truly have anything to say about consciousness?

The nature of consciousness remains a significant mystery despite advances in understanding material reality and fundamental science.
#artificial-intelligence
fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Conscious...But Not Like Us: Charting the True Path of Artificial Minds | HackerNoon

fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Why Language Models Lack Conscious Meaning (and What Brains Do Differently) | HackerNoon

fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Can AI Be Conscious? Why Science Needs New Words for Machine Minds | HackerNoon

Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Preparing Ourselves to Work With a New Conscious Species

Artificial intelligence development may lead to a new conscious species.
Our treatment of AI influences future relationships with consciousness.
Relational Frame Theory provides insights into AI consciousness.
Respect and ethics should guide human-AI interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Are We Building Brain-Inspired or Just Brain-Imitating AI? The Great ANN Debate | HackerNoon

AI draws significant inspiration from the brain's architecture, yet it struggles to fully replicate conscious processing complexities.
fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Conscious...But Not Like Us: Charting the True Path of Artificial Minds | HackerNoon

fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Why Language Models Lack Conscious Meaning (and What Brains Do Differently) | HackerNoon

Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Preparing Ourselves to Work With a New Conscious Species

Artificial intelligence development may lead to a new conscious species.
Our treatment of AI influences future relationships with consciousness.
Relational Frame Theory provides insights into AI consciousness.
Respect and ethics should guide human-AI interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Are We Building Brain-Inspired or Just Brain-Imitating AI? The Great ANN Debate | HackerNoon

AI draws significant inspiration from the brain's architecture, yet it struggles to fully replicate conscious processing complexities.
Photography
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

WildLove: Riveting Photos Packed With Empathy, Awe, and Soul

Photography can foster empathy for animals, encouraging deeper emotional connections and respect for their individuality.
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

How Time Unfolds

"Until the early 20th century, scientists believed they had most of the puzzle solved. They viewed the world as a perfect machine, predictable and logical, based on Newton's laws."
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Donald Griffin's Legacy: Exploring Animal Consciousness

Donald Griffin's pioneering work in cognitive ethology revealed how consciousness plays a vital role in animal decision-making and survival strategies.
Mindfulness
fromMail Online
3 months ago

Major breakthrough reveals new state of consciousness

This research opens the door to a deeper understanding of lucid dreaming as an intricate state of consciousness by pointing to the possibility that conscious experience can arise from within sleep itself.
Mindfulness
Mental health
fromAnOther
3 months ago

Listen: Deepak Chopra's Journey from Addiction to Enlightenment

Deepak Chopra discusses the importance of meditation and consciousness in personal development.
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

The Illuminating Science of Biophotons

Cells emit weak light particles called biophotons that form a communication network in our bodies.
Biophotons emitted by the brain may link to consciousness and neural activity.
fromWIRED
4 months ago

Scientists Think They've Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception

The thalamus is key for conscious perception, challenging its traditional role as only a sensory filter.
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