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Why do dreams lose clarity quickly over time after we awaken?
Short answer: Because areas of the brain needed for remembering are turned off during dreaming.
Dream Amnesia:
The process of converting perception into a memory construct that can be stored is ...
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Why do we wake up when we die in our dreams?
When you dream you're in REM sleep (rapid eye movement). REM sleep is only slightly more "deep" than stage 1 of non-REM which means it's not that hard to wake you up in the first place.
Dying in a ...
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Why do dreams lose clarity quickly over time after we awaken?
State dependent memory could play a role in quickly forgetting dreams after awakening.
See my question here: What is the scientific term for unexpected, spontaneous dream recall? I ask about a ...
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Can a sufficiently complex ANN simulate consciousness?
David Chalmers has argued against the thermostat view, suggesting that adaptation to the environment is not sufficient. John Searle also disagrees that the current state of machine learning is capable ...
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Does our consciousness die when we go to sleep or fall into a coma?
Q: Does our consciousness die when we go to sleep or fall into a coma?
A: No, neuroscientifically speaking, the consciousness does not die when we are sleeping or are in a coma; it is just in a sleep ...
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What is the relationship between the ego, amygdala and consciousness?
Assuming your question is "Is person's ego a projection of the responses of their amygdala onto the conscious experience?", I think it would translate to "Does the amygdala determines or houses the ...
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What would explain an intense feeling of being extremely present, for no reason?
Apparently I have a proclivity for long answers, but I thought I'd respond given the viewership on this question.
We can whittle your question down to a more general form: Can my subjective ...
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Do many people have an "Accompanying Voice" - an equal they converse with?
From a quick search online I see no reason why you distantiate what you describe from auditory hallucinations:
a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without
auditory stimulus.
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Is hypnosis really concentration/focus?
The answer lies in what is known of the conscious, unconscious and the presconscious parts of the mind, with preconscious is the scientific name for the subconscious, however, for the purposes of this ...
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Is there a name for arguing with other people in one's mind?
I'm not aware of a term specifically for this phenomenon.
Having a conversation in one's head has been termed dialogic inner speech by several researchers. You didn't mention if the people you are ...
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Does monism imply that computers can have consciousness?
Note: While "The Basic Theory of the Mind" may potentially be well researched and possibly accurate, it is (as far as I know) a self-published discourse by a non-researcher, that is not peer-reviewed. ...
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Is there a term in psychology for when a tool is perceived as an extension of your body?
Short answer
Possible interesting terms are:
distal attribution (externalization)
body transfer illusion (rubber hand illusion)
embodiment
Background
This is a very interesting, yet difficult ...
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Is the split-brain, dual consciousness experiment from Rhawn Joseph valid?
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On the basis of a cursory literature review, I conclude that Jospeh's observations were correct, but his conclusions that a callosotomy can result in a dual consciousness were far ...
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Color and shape arriving together in visual system
It is something of an oversimplification to say that
there are separate visual pathways for both color and shape.
There are many cells, even in V1, which are selective for both colour and shape (...
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If reality is just hallucination, how come different people see same objects
According to Anil Seth, in this talk, consciousness is an active construction process. In that view, for the subject to have an experience about world, physical ...
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When does a human baby develop a consciousness?
Q: When does a human baby develop a consciousness? … Consciousness - the ability to sense the world around you in an independent way. You can think for yourself, and make choices that defy your ...
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Threshold time for stimulus to be consciously perceived. Why?
If by consciously perceived, you mean recognizing a feature (and possible reactions accordingly), there are several tasks to be considered that seem to cause delays:
Saccades and eye movements: ...
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Why do we talk unconsciously while sleeping
Brief periods of sleep-talking (somniloquy), mostly gibberish, are quite common, particularly in children. It is not typically useful to call something a "disorder" unless it is causing a problem. ...
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Why does even the most rational brain forget logic in a dream?
Neither rational nor logical
"...there is overwhelming evidence that Humans cannot be [rational]" - Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow).
To begin with, the brain is neither rational ...
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How can machine possibly possess consciousness if computation is a human idea?
Short answer: This is formally known as the hard problem of consciousness - if you can figure it out, then you'll probably win a Nobel Prize:
The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of ...
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What is the effect of Binaural Beats on an Autistic brain?
The evidence in support of binaural beats as a therapeutic tool is sketchy: Is there scientific evidence on the benefits of binaural beats? Given our lack of understanding of if binaural beats can ...
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Books on Neurological functions?
Any basic Neuroscience book would suffice, really. For example, a really good and widely used book is
Principles of Neural Science from Kandel et al. I read it nearly from cover to cover, and it ...
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What is the psychology behind blind spots? Why do we fail to see, what others see so clearly about us?
What you are talking about is something psychologists Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1916–1995) looked at in 1955. They developed a 4-pane window visualisation called the Johari ...
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What is the state of the art research of the consciousness level for high-level cognitive activity?
One approach to this is to search for "habituation", "learned task", "concomitant task", "dual task" and "multiple task" studies, which may include cognitive and physical aspects (memory, reaction ...
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What is the state of the art research of the consciousness level for high-level cognitive activity?
This would be a combination of couple of things, dependant upon what type of "activity" you are referring to. It can be broken up into two aspects, the physical and the cognitive aspect.
The ...
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What can coma patients report about their experiences - if anything?
The majority of people who recovered from coma did not report any experiences that occurred while they were in coma (clinically unresponsive, with absent or minimal brainstem reflexes, and with ...
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Do people who experience heautoscopy become unable to see their reflected image in a mirror?
While acknowledging the fact that Google delivers personalized results, I am fairly sure a Google search for "heautoscopy" will deliver you bucket loads of papers to read - I have copied a ...
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Meditation for patients with neuroleptic induced tension
Akathisia is very difficult to handle. Sometimes akathisia responds to anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines, propranolol, and even red wine. Amantadine, benztropine (for Parkinsonism) might also ...
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When can we say that machines are conscious?
All we can say now is that machines have aspects of consciousness. This is according to Pagel (2017), who provides a summary of the various areas web-based browsers meet the criteria, or not:
Pagel ...
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Parasite that takes over cognitive functions
I can't give you an informed response to questions 1 and 2 though I do know that parasitic wasps inject toxin into a spider, lay an egg on the back of the spider and cause it to spin a web that will ...
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