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Dehaene reviews unconscious brain processing of various forms: subliminal perception, Édouard Claparède's pinprick experiment, blindsight, hemispatial neglect, subliminal priming, unconscious binding (including across sensory modalities, as in the McGurk effect), etc. Dehaene discusses a debate over whether meaning can be processed unconsciously and concludes based on his own research that ...
The protoself is an unconscious process that creates a "map" of the body's physiological state, which is then used by the brain to generate conscious experience. This "map" is constantly updated as the brain receives new stimuli from the body, and it forms the foundation for the development of more complex forms of consciousness.
Animal consciousness: What animals or other lifeforms have conscious experience? Are philosophical zombies possible? How might it be possible to test whether a being has qualia or not? Problem of representation: How exactly does the mind function (or how does the brain interpret and represent information about the world)? [4]
Discovering and characterizing neural correlates does not offer a causal theory of consciousness that can explain how particular systems experience anything, the so-called hard problem of consciousness, [6] but understanding the NCC may be a step toward a causal theory. Most neurobiologists propose that the variables giving rise to ...
The problem of other minds is particularly acute for people who believe in the possibility of philosophical zombies, that is, people who think it is possible in principle to have an entity that is physically indistinguishable from a human being and behaves like a human being in every way but nevertheless lacks consciousness. [66] Related issues ...
Since then, many pieces of evidence have at least hinted that, while the brain may not be a full-fledged quantum computer, some quantum properties may in fact help generate consciousness.
Doing a difficult task, like a complex math problem, does take more energy. But don’t expect to lose weight crunching numbers. The increase in energy used for critical thinking is tiny compared ...
Consciousness is distinctively associated with widespread brain activation related to the conscious content. Perhaps two dozen experiments show that sensory input supporting consciousness spreads from the sensory cortex to parietal , prefrontal , and medial-temporal cortex, while closely matched input that does not reach consciousness activates ...