The Unobservable Mind Roger Scruton Febuary 2005 Consciousness is more familiar to us than any other feature of our world, since it is the route by which...
Animal laughs no joke says expert Laughter may not be unique to humans Many animals may have their own forms of laughter, says a US researcher writing in the...
Plant synapses: actin-based domains for cell-to-cell communication Frantisek Baluska, Dieter Volkmann and Diedrik Menzel Institute of Cellular and Molecular...
In a message dated 01/04/2005 22:31:49 GMT Standard Time, stonjek@... writes: But will we? Unfortunately, the philosophical problem comes back at us...
For years now I have accepted that the best explanation of me being aware of being here now is that my brain creates within itself a model of self in the world...
Well phrased Mark. You might conclude that most books on 'consciousness' constitute narratives of portions of our naive perceptual and/or conceptual accounts...
Try John Searle's new book "Mind: A Brief Introduction" (Oxford, 2004). It's a lot shorter than 1000 pages and, until the very end, I found it fascinating. ...
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6, 332-339 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrn1651 FROM PRESENCE TO CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY Maria V. Sanchez-Vives & Mel Slater...
... The left/right asymmetry reflects a scale of precision from the vague/unknown/approximate to the crisp/known/precise. The clarity, the FM-nature, of the...
I fail to see in what way Roger Scruton sheds any light on the consciousness question, though I suppose he could get an "A" for effort. He makes the error...
PS - what I did not emphasise is the fundamental differences in method of the two types of dichotomy. Symmetric will focus on difference from sameness. IOW...
1.The idea that the brain is "the seat of consciousness" hasn't really been proven scientifically. glen_swift 2.no scientist is questioning the brain as the...
1.The idea that the brain is "the seat of consciousness" hasn't really been proven scientifically. glen_swift 2.no scientist is questioning the brain as the...
... really ... else ... Hi Mike, I can appreciate your believing that consciousness must necessarily "sit" someplace, but I should point out that that is ...
Glen, et al, in the context of discussing consciousness origins etc.... From an email of mine to another list (PSYCHE-D): (the initial part is written by a...
Getting to Know You: Reputation and Trust in a Two-Person Economic Exchange Brooks King-Casas,1 Damon Tomlin,1 Cedric Anen,3 Colin F. Camerer,3 Steven R....
One way we think is by using words, language, as an inner conversation. When specific words are in our mind, there should be specific neural correlates for...
Indeed there is no scientific evidence that material or neurological processes in the brain produce consciousness, although there is all kinds of evidence that...
Thanks for the support Jud, and Dr d' I stick with the 'C is what it is like to be the updating of the brain's model of self in the world' because it is the...
Mechanisms of Memory By J. David Sweatt , Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Description This book stands as the first unified overview of the...
Imaging the developing brain: what have we learned about cognitive development? B.J. Caseya, , Nim Tottenhama, Conor Listona and Sarah Durstona, b aSackler...
RKS: There is no mystery with regard to the non-feeling of the brain itself - there are no pain receptors in the brain. The reason why we feel anything is due...
Glen, you wrote: ' Of course scientists don't question their understanding that the brain is the seat of consciousness, for to do so could undermine their...
Dear Chris It is fantastic to see this kind of email. The problem with the present view of consciousness being determined by activity only in the brain, is...
In this recent article in Psychological Science, Sergent and Dehaene argue that consciousness is an either-or phenomenon. Using an experimental procedure with...
Mark, I concur with your 'disagreement' on different 2 grounds. One is 'labeling', Glen may be mistaken to assign his opinion to "scientists" in general. The...
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