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Articles on Consciousness
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Brains scans show a signature linked to a dissolved separation between the self and the world.
Traditional Chinese medicine sees consciousness as an attribute similar to health or beauty, not as a single brain function.
The modern scientific consensus is that your unconscious mind does the heavy lifting.
Kashmir’s history as a center of learning and the arts for Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims offers another way of understanding the region – one shaped by centuries of religious coexistence.
Anthropic says there is something lurking inside Claude that looks a lot like the ‘global workspace’ one influential theory of consciousness depends on.
When we’re awake, our imaginations are quite different. But what about our dreams?
A new study builds on a wave of new work that is daring to suggest insects might have a form of consciousness.
The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.
There are good reasons why we see AI chatbots as more than what they truly are.
There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan wonders if the search for consciousness might be a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.
The information your eyes takes in is only half the story.
Many artists and scientists have had breakthrough while in this drowsy state between sleep and waking.
The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.
What matters for consciousness is not what you do, but how you do it.
The phenomenon of awakening experiences.
Do we need to change the way we think about consciousness?
Western theories of consciousness tend to assume consciousness is about information.
AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of machines.
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