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Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?
Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible – it all depends on what you think consciousness is.
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The plants that change our consciousness
It is no coincidence that caffeine and the minute-hand on clocks arrived at around the same historical moment, the acclaimed food and nature writer Michael Pollan argues in his latest book, This is Yo...
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Merlin remembered the future and anticipated the past. Benjamin Button aged backwards. These things are hard to imagine, but imagine something even stranger: someone whose life is like yours, but play... View More
Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe | Psyche Ideas
What would your time-reverse twin think and feel walking back from the present into the past? And why does it matter?
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"Tentacular brains, the sadness of a plant and the limits of anthropocentrism". How can we understand the idea of intelligence in a plant or an octopus by means of our human consciousness?
Tentacular brains, the sadness of a ficus and the limits of anthropocentrism | CCCB LAB
How can we understand the idea of intelligence in a plant or an octopus by means of our human consciousness?
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Fascinating writeup on the consciousness of invertebrates. Spiders play games with their prey, wasps recognize faces, ants recognize their reflections. We are even more connected to the natural world ... View More
How Science Has Revealed the Inner Consciousness of Invertebrates
A Bowl of Rotting Peaches Before getting into the science, let me share a personal experience of the sort that may give one pause before concluding, as I suspect most do, that insects are incapable…
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Yes, we are not the only ones who can “think”, although it might not be recognized as thinking, because we as humans only tend to categorize what we do as the only possibility.
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The decades long effort of mapping the full ( just ~ 300 neuron and ~ 8000 connections ) nervous system of a “simple” organism, the worm C. Elegans is yet to give any significant insight on how its wo... View More
The First Complete Brain Wiring Diagram of Any Species Is Here
Aided by modern computer algorithms, the team mapped roughly 7,000 neural connections of both sexes of C. elegans, while landmarking all synaptic locations.
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State of consciousness may involve quantum effects, University of Calgary scientists show
Faculty of Science research team develops quantum model to explain how an anaesthetic affects consciousness
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A man regained consciousness after 15 years in a vegetative state. But what does that really mean?
Someone who passes out and then “regains consciousness” wakes up able to walk and talk again. But that’s not what happened to this man. So what did he regain?
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Is The Universe Conscious?
The idea of a conscious universe seems to fly in the face of our deep-seated materialist worldview, whereby all existence is due to material particles and their interactions, says Marcelo Gleiser.
