July 17, 2012 (Prague, Czech Republic) — With a decreasing level of consciousness, a person's ability to distinguish between self and nonself referential stimuli also decreased, with concomitant ...
The study addresses objections that argue consciousness cannot be captured by computable transformations. Some critics ...
To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...
A new technique that can determine a person's level of consciousness could benefit patients who have suffered brain damage. These patients range from those who are fully aware but are unable to ...
For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments.
Where does consciousness come from? And when it ramps up or down, at what point does it move from consciousness to not-consciousness? Carl Zimmer published both a blog post and a story in the New York ...
Researchers often study nonhuman abilities by assuming their subjects form representations about perceived stimuli and then process such information; why then would consciousness be required, and, if ...
To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...