Yet despite this growing interest in consciousness, the million-dollar question remains: does the stoned ape theory have any ...

The brain is an amazing organ with growth and reparative capacity. It controls our cognitive, motor, sensory, emotional, and ...

Recent findings suggest that memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too?

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By David Stephen March 10-16 is Brain Awareness Week for 2025. Seeking to solve consciousness is to seek the components [closest to] responsible and how they [might] mechanize consciousness. This […] ...

The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.

If computers can create consciousness, then minds cannot be identical to brains ... Putnam argued for machine functionalism, suggesting that mental states are a function of a computational machine, ...

Only 29% of patients with neither sleep spindles nor cognitive motor dissociation showed signs of consciousness by the time they were discharged and just 7% regained neurological function a year ...

Unlike in ‘workspace’ models of consciousness, in which conscious ... concerns and action tendencies and does not replicate the function of the system as a whole. The homunculus fallacy ...

Just over 40 percent of unresponsive patients with both well-formed sleep spindles and CMD recovered consciousness before leaving hospital, with more than three-quarters regaining neurological ...