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Searching for answers: Why asking questions make us uniquely human

Gregg Henriques | 
Evolution of propositional speech: Human self-consciousness is about generating justification systems for one's self and others ...
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‘Detecting consciousness’: Living with a missing cerebellum and other mysteries of the brain

Joel Frohlich | 
Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made of? ...
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Are we any closer to understanding what consciousness is?

Grant Currin | 
Thinkers have spent an immense amount of time and ink trying to unravel mysteries, such as how consciousness works and ...
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What is the slippery notion of ‘consciousness’?

Ross Pomeroy | 
As humans, we know we [are conscious] but haven't a clue how it arises. It's a facet of intelligent life ...
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Does our perception of the world reflect reality? Solving the problem of consciousness

Philip Goff | 
When I see red, it’s the most religious experience. Seeing red just results from photons of a certain frequency hitting ...
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Sniff test: How our sense of smell appears to signal whether an unresponsive patient might recover consciousness

Thiago Arzua | 
Even with more recent technologies, such as brain imaging, the rate of misdiagnosis in DOC [disorders of consciousness] patients could ...
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Explaining consciousness: These 2 brain networks show how we turn experiences into memories

Vanessa Ramirez | 
One of the most recent studies showed a clear relationship between two brain networks critical to consciousness. In a paper ...
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Consciousness is subjective. Does that mean it can’t be rigorously studied?

Tam Hunt | 
The science of consciousness has enjoyed a renaissance in the last couple of decades and the study of our own ...
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Finding where ‘consciousness resides in the human brain’ could help us awaken comatose patients

Emily Mullin | 
Some people may gradually come out of a coma or wake up after a few weeks.... To help these people, ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Hunches’ can’t be used to decide the fate of ‘covertly conscious’ patients in vegetative states

Adrian Owen, Charles Weijer, Mackenzie Graham | 
[A]s many as 15% to 20% of patients who have been rigorously diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state ...
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Some patients in vegetative states have functioning minds. Keeping them alive may amount to ‘torture’

Jacob Appel | 
[Researchers] have convincingly demonstrated that a subset of individuals in persistent vegetative states have meaningfully functioning minds — even as ...
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Deconstructing the idea that consciousness is a ‘spooky’ illusion

Nigel Warburton | 
These days it is highly fashionable to label consciousness an ‘illusion’. This in turn fosters the impression, especially among the ...
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‘Scientific fight of the century’: Two theories of consciousness are going head-to-head

Shelly Fan | 
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: two theories of consciousness are about to face off in the scientific fight ...
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Astonishing efficiency, unlimited storage: What makes the human brain so powerful?

Shelly Fan | 
[A] team from Washington University in St. Louis combined neural recordings from rats with computer modeling to uncover one of the ...
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Searching for a mathematical model of consciousness

Kenneth Shinozuka | 
What is consciousness? In a sense, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. ... Science has produced ...
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Will we ever know if our computers gain consciousness?

Elisabeth Hildt | 
The question of whether machines can have consciousness is not new, with proponents of strong artificial intelligence (strong AI) and ...
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‘Tremendous ethical challenge’: What if lab-grown brains are capable of developing consciousness?

Shelly Fan | 
At what point does electro-chemical activity in dissected brain-like tissue become conscious? Yes, I’m talking about the classic sci-fi “brain ...
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Tiny electric signals in the brains of comatose patients may help predict who will wake up

Beth Mole | 
Researchers may have found a way to detect inklings of consciousness in comatose and vegetative patients just days after they ...
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No, plants don’t have ‘conscious awareness’, scientists argue

George Dvorsky | 
The remarkable ability of plants to respond to their environment has led some scientists to believe it’s a sign of ...
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Are plants conscious? Experts say trendy theory in biology based on misunderstanding of evolution

If a tree falls, and no one's there to hear it, does it feel pain and loneliness? No, experts argue ...
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We could try to build a conscious robot. But how would we know if we succeeded?

Hakwan Lau | 
Consciousness seems to stem from the struggle between our brain's beliefs and perceptions. How can we design neural networks to ...
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Viewpoint: What is ‘consciousness’ and what role does it play in evolution?

Steven Hayes | 
One of the biggest challenges in evolutionary science is to explain the evolution of consciousness. While that is widely recognized, ...
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Are we closer to determining what a ‘conscious brain’ looks like?

Ed Cara | 
Most of the time, it’s easy to tell when someone is consciously aware. But there are many tragic cases when ...
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Arguing for and against consciousness in single-celled organisms

Paul Thagard | 
A provocative new book by Arthur Reber argues that bacteria are conscious and that the origins of mind are found ...
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Is conscious thought just an illusion?

Peter Carruthers, Steve Ayan | 
Philosopher Peter Carruthers insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions. … [Carruthers:] Thoughts such as decisions and judgments ...
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State of mind: Will computers learn to act and think like we do?

Subhash Kak | 
The technology that drives artificial intelligence is constantly moving forward. But will machines every gain the human equivalent of a ...
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