The True Root of Consciousness Isn't What We Think, a Scientist Says—And It Could Upend Who We Think We Are

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...
Psychology Today

The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness

Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...
Scientific American

Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head

More than 100 authors ultimately signed on. Indeed, critics have linked IIT with panpsychism, the philosophy that consciousness perfuses everything, even nonliving entities. If consciousness arises ...

A living epic of philosophy, myth, and human consciousness

A towering figure in the field of epic poetry, Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is hailed as ‘the greatest poet among philosophers and ...
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How the philosophy of mind and consciousness has affected AI research

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...
JSTOR Daily

I know how I know: perception, self-awareness, self-knowledge

When a subject has perceptually grounded knowledge, she typically knows how she knows what she knows, and is able to appeal to perceived items and her own experiences in reason-giving practices. What ...
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From Indian philosophy to cognitive neuroscience: two empirical case studies for Ganeri's "Self": Commentary on Jonardon Ganeri's "The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, & the ...

Vol. 174, No. 7, Special Issue: SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION, PACIFIC DIVISION, 2016 MEETING (July 2017), pp. 1721-1733 (13 pages) In this commentary, I confront ...
Psychology Today

The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness

Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...