Category: consciousness
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They’re Made Out Of Meat
Stathis Papaioannou has made a link to this video on the everything list. Stephen O’Regan short film, They’re Made Out Of Meat https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg I like it. Some more info about the story in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They’re_Made_Out_of_Meat
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Monkey have conscious visual perception
Below there is my message to the everything-list (see Unconsciousness components): http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605 It is tricky to prove consciousness from behavior. Yet, it seems sometimes to be possible under some mild assumptions. To this end I will briefly describe below an experiment that has been done to prove that a monkey has conscious visual perception (p.…
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Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem
Jeffrey A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem. I find this book very interesting. The author considers in the book actually conscious experience only, for him consciousness == conscious experience. In other words, the book is about qualia from the viewpoint of neuroscience. p. 4. “This, then, are the ‘consciousness experiences’ that this…
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The Arithmetical Paradox: The Oneness of Mind
Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter Chapter 4: The Arithmetical Paradox: The Oneness of Mind The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be…
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What crazy scientists make with brain nowadays
I have received an offer to download one audio book for free from Audible.de. Well, it happens that they have their own audio format, not mp3 and they use DRM. However, it was working with my iPod Shuffle and I have decided to take a bite. In Russian this called “halyava” and I could not resist…