Questions tagged [consciousness]
For questions that have to do with a sense of being awake and aware in the literal sense, but also those having to do with the nature of the mind and the formation of the individual.
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Does Consciousness require a Structured Physical System?
I have been studying Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory, and there he mentions 5 characteristics of human conscious experience (source: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/...
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recording a psychological state
We can record a picture with a camera and record a voice with a recorder. Then, how could we record a psychological state? If we can record it and then re-experience it, it will be helpful in studying ...
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Mushin - Enormous improve state of controlled subconscious mind
Mushin in Japanese and Wuxin in Chinese (無心 "no mind") is a mental
state. Zen and Daoist meditators attempt to reach this state, as well
as artists and trained martial artists. They also ...
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What are these extra 11 dimensions of human mind?
I posted this question on the physics stack exchange, but I was guided to ask the question here though from the view point of a neuro-scientist which should be more useful if she has already followed ...
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Do brain cells get replaced/repaired completely?
Okay so this is a claim that you can see made on the internet that the none of the atoms remain in your body forever. This caught my interest cause this could be used to show that consciousness is not ...
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in this attentional blink experiment why is the second letter visible when the lag is low but not when the lag is high
this image is from the book Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
the book describes the image as follows :
The attentional blink illustrates the temporal limitations of
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Is it possible to disassociate working memory and consciousness?
The traditional view holds that consciousness and working memory has linked tightly. But some researches have some proofs against this idea. The study said that people can reading and doing arithmetic ...
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Electric communication between single neurons
It is believed that neurons communicate through neurotransmitters, released from multiple synapses and flow to the axon of the next neuron. But has it been shown if a single neuron communicate with a ...
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Isn’t the concept of « Conscious agent » developped by Donald Hoffman a variation on the ancient idea of homonculus?
Isn’t the concept of « Conscious agent » developed by Donald Hoffman a variation on the ancient concept of homonculus?
The idea of homunculus is the idea that consciousness is not the body or a part ...
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Consciousness without language
It seems that consciousness can only be investigated through self-report, i.e. language/communication of some kind. Is it believed that consciousness could nonetheless exist without language?
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Resources on understanding the Orchestrated objective reduction
I was trying to understand the mathematics behind the theory of Orchestrated objective reduction, and clearly, first I read the original paper of Penrose & Hameroff. Then I tried some other ...
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Change in perceived direction of body when laying in bed [closed]
Sometimes when I lie in bed, with my eyes closed, I get the sense that my head is actually at the bottom of the bed, where my feet usually are, when I know it is still resting on the pillow on the top ...
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Are there surveys and results on degree of support for different theories of consciousness with correlations to demographic or other characteristics?
I am looking for two things that I an unable to find.
A "survey" or "quiz" that attempts to determine the degree one's support for various theories of consciousness. I could ...
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Do people who experience heautoscopy become unable to see their reflected image in a mirror?
I understand that people who experience autoscopy can see their body image outside them without a mirror. I had read many years back in a paper that people who experience the inverse phenomenon called ...
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Is there a term in psychology for when a tool is perceived as an extension of your body?
Is there a specific term that describes the phenomenon where you perceive a tool as an extension of your own body?
An example of this would be when a skilled artist or tradesman has so mastered their ...
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Does Ativan / lorazepam ever cause unconsciousness, or only memory loss? [closed]
An Ativan injection, probably 20-min after the event, erased my memory starting 30-min prior to the event until (maybe 1-hour or so?) after the event. Because of memory loss, the injuries were the ...
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How do people with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) experience dreams?
For people without DID, dream experiences include having other characters in one's dreams behave in ways one can't predict or control, sometimes there can be a "switch" into lucid dreaming where more ...
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How a living being (a huge collection of atoms) perceive things? [duplicate]
How a series of physical and chemical events leads to a very non physical/ intangible perception? For example, let's say a certain wavelength of light falls on the retina of my eyes, then the sensory ...
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Could bioinfomatics explain consciousness?
There's a theory that consciousness is the result of information processing. Many speculate based on this that the brain is conscious because it is processing information. If this theory of ...
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What characterizes Grossberg's resonances?
Following Bryan Krause's advice I tried to be more specific and picked as one specific neural theory of consciousness Stephen Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory in which a specific group of ...
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Which characteristics of neural activity patterns underlie conscious experience?
Which specific characteristics of neural activity patterns are unique for the cortex and neocortex as the presumed "seat of consciousness" and can only be observed there? Activity patterns having ...
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How well is biofeedback understood?
From an answer to the question Research suggesting conscious control over brain region activation? I have learned:
»[S]ubjects become better at up-regulating or down-regulating
activation in ...
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What can coma patients report about their experiences - if anything?
Coma is correlated to a significant inactivity of the cerebral cortex and the reticular activating system, while other parts of the brain - e.g. the limbic system - might still show considerable ...
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Neural correlates of pleasantness and unpleasantness
There are some basic cases of stimuli that are typically experienced either as pleasant or unpleasant, e.g. the major third as opposed to the tritone.
Assuming that there are different processes ...
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Does monism imply that computers can have consciousness?
According to The Basic Theory of the Mind, the mind is not a different entity from the brain, but an emergent property of the brain. Based on this assertion, can it be concluded that computers and ...
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Is there a name for arguing with other people in one's mind?
Is there a name for the phenomenon of arguing with other people in one's mind?
I don't mean simply replaying memories of arguments (or modifications thereof), although that may fall under this too but ...
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What is the state of the art research of the consciousness level for high-level cognitive activity?
Everybody knows situations where activities requiring concentration and high level consciousness can over time become a "background" task.
For example:
you read a text aloud but think about other ...
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Different levels of consciousness
The answer provided by @user287279 to When does a human baby develop a consciousness? is a great answer in my mind which scrapes the surface of what consciousness consists of.
When you look at ...
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When does a human baby develop a consciousness?
Not to offend anyone or anything, but I've been searching up about abortion lately, and all the debate about it, and it got me wondering, when does a baby develop a consciousness?
Consciousness - the ...
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Does our consciousness die when we go to sleep or fall into a coma?
I have sometimes wondered if our consciousness dies when we go to sleep at night or perhaps when we enter a deep coma, like from brain damage, for example. When we wake, or are woken, a new ...
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How can I learn Integrated information Theory
I'm looking for a syllabus for Integrated Information Theory that could help a non-scientists learn all the fundamental concepts required to fully understand IIT
It looks like it involves statistics, ...
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System 1 and unconsious
Kahneman (2011) apparently suggests there is system 1 and system 2 in decision making.
If I am not wrong he says system 1 is more prone to errors because it is automatic. Is this correct assumption ...
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is it unconcious?
Roughly speaking, I as well as some other people probably have observer following.
(1) Sometimes ideas start to come to me out of nowhere, (2) then we sometimes analyze it further and either reject or ...
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Relaxing your concepts in meditation
I am using the app Waking up from Sam Harris. A lot of his guided meditations tell you to perceive the world as the raw data of experience, instead of perceiving objects and concepts. To illustrate ...
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At what point does a human become self-aware?
What are the conditions for being self-aware? If this answer can not be answered by naming specific traits, behavior unique to a self-aware being, complexity of development or other tangible concepts, ...
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Is there a name for the experience/ phenomenon of dreaming while being partially awake?
Is there a name for the experience/ phenomenon of dreaming while being partially awake, being able to decide to wake up when dreaming, having control of the self character in a dream, etc?
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Is there consciouness when a person is sleeping and not dreaming?
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Consciouness
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness or of being aware
of an external object or something within oneself.
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What is the psychology behind blind spots? Why do we fail to see, what others see so clearly about us?
It’s absolutely imperative to identify our blind spots. I believe that they are impediment for one to reach his full potential. But how does one, see his blind spot - #oxymoron?
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Why are civic duties part of Competence (C1) in the NEO-PI-R
In the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, one of the questions used to score C1 ("Competence"), is 35. I don't take civic duties like voting very seriously.
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Is passive-aggressive behavior conscious or unconscious?
It is my experience that people who show passive aggressive behavior do not realize it or at least do not admit it.
Which leads me to the question whether passive-aggressive behavior can be ...
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Integrated Information Theory - If correct could humans create artificial consciousness?
First off please keep in mind I am self-learning and am learning about this for fun, I have no end goal. I'm trying to make predictions about what I am learning implies or means, so I can ask better ...
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Can you self-induce a derealization episode?
From The experimental induction of depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) in panic disorder and nonanxious subjects (Miller, et al., 1994)
DP and DR induction procedures were the following: ...
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Exact Medical situation name for Guided Meditation/Visualization to "Re-live a moment"
There are lots of videos & audios for Guided Visualization for particular things like forest, beach, sky etc.. But what should I exactly search to get result for "ReLive past Moment". Is there ...
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If reality is just hallucination, how come different people see same objects
I wanted to ask this question for a long time but couldnt find any thing to support my argument. Today i found this https://www.ted.com/talk/...
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Study purportedly proving psychedelics induce a "heightened state of consciousness"
The Guardian headlines on 28 Nov 2017: "Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show".
Healthy volunteers who received LSD, ketamine or psilocybin, a ...
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Is hypnosis really concentration/focus?
It's widely claimed that hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention.
But I've also seen many claims that the hypnotic state is about accessing the subconscious mind directly, essentially "...
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Is the phenomenom of “subjective consciousness” or “qualia” formally captured by any state-of-the-art Theoretical Model in Neuroscience?
Is the phenomenon of "subjective consciousness" or "qualia" formally captured or defined by any state-of-the-art Theoretical Model in Neuroscience? If so, can you share a brief summary of such ...
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Can a person do things against their own will and be conscious of it at the same time? [duplicate]
I am a firm believer of the principle of free-will, but wanted to see if there was any examples(or case examples) of people knowingly doing things against their own will.
I know that we can be ...
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PTSD recovery / prefrontal cortex blood flow [closed]
I am studying a case of PTSD where the patient has lost "crispness of consciousness" and is in a zombie-like state often found among soldiers where only programmed behavior is possible.
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Consciousness as sufficient complexity [duplicate]
First of all, let me state that I am a newcomer to cognitive science in general and this community in particular, so feel free to chew me out if this question is inappropriate in some way.
I have ...
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