Neural correlates of consciousness

Alva Noë - What Makes Brains Conscious?

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Don Page - Physics of Consciousness

How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations focus at the level of neuron and neuronal circuits in the brain. But little real progress has motivated some to look much deeper, into the laws of physics — information theory, quan

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Menas Kafatos - Does Consciousness Cause the Cosmos?

Some claim consciousness, our inner awareness, is part of a 'cosmic consciousness'. Not only is consciousness the deepest reality, but also it brought into existence the totality of reality. This would mean that mind, the mental, is fundamental and primary, while the entire physical univer

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The Biopsychology of Consciousness

We've learned a lot about brains in this series, and the types of perceptions they can facilitate. But how exactly does the brain produce consciousness? Furthermore, what exactly is consciousness? Where is it located in the brain? Let's get a closer look at this phenomenon! Watch the who

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Susan Greenfield - What is Consciousness?

Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/2UufzC7 Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philo

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Lecture 01: Prolegomenon to the Study of Consciousness

Lecture 1 corresponds to Chapter 1 of "The Quest for Consciousness - A Neurobiological Approach," by Christof Koch. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). To learn more about thi

From playlist The Neuronal Basis of Consciousness Course - CNS/Bi/Psy 120

Daniel Dennett - How are Brains Conscious?

Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that brains generate inner subjective experience, the movies of our minds? Why do brains seem to be the only place where such mental magic occurs? Could a complete understandin

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Donald Hoffman - What is Consciousness?

Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers. To begin, we must define and describe consciousness. What to include in

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Can Brain Explain Mind? | Episode 204 | Closer To Truth

What is it about the brain that enables some scientists to claim they can explain mind? And what is it about scientific explanations that some philosophers reject? Featuring interviews with Christof Koch, Rodolfo Llinas, Raymond Kurzweil, John Searle, and David Chalmers. Season 2, Episode

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Mapping The Brain | Digging Deeper

Should the United States spend billions to completely map the human brain? Will it ever be possible to build an artificial brain - and, if we do, what are the implications for the future? Join Ben and Matt as they talk about some interesting stuff that didn't make it into the Deceptive Bra

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Jaron Lanier - What Makes Brains Conscious?

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Tim Bayne - Is Consciousness Irreducible?

Why is consciousness so contentious? Neuroscience can increasingly explain many facets of consciousness, but what about conscious awareness itself? Some philosophers claim that although facets of consciousness—such as how we see edges or colors—can be explained, we have no possibility of e

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Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival - Session 4

http://www.thesciencenetwork.org Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, the first of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5 to November 7, 2006, was described by the New York Times, as "a free-for-all on science and religion," which seeme

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Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing? | Episode 1005 | Closer To Truth

If mind and brain are the same thing, then the physical world is likely all that exists. But if mind and brain are not the same thing, then what? Could reality go beyond the physical? Featuring interviews with David Eagleman, Nicholas Humphrey, Richard Swinburne, Raymond Tallis, and Robert

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19. Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists Take Seriously

MIT 24.08J Philosophical Issues in Brain Science, Spring 2009 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/24-08JS09 Instructor: Prof. David Chalmers License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

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Anil Seth on a New Science of Consciousness | Closer To Truth Chats

Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, discusses his new theory about how we experience the world and the self. He talks about the "real problem" of consciousness, measuring consciousness, and the brain as a Predictive Perception Machi

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The Cortical Predicament - J. N. Findlay on Consciousness (1971)

John Niemeyer Findlay gives a 1971 lecture on consciousness. J.N. Findlay was Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University, who studied under Rudolph Carnap and Martin Heidegger. Through analysis of Brentano, Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, F

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Donald Hoffman on Consciousness and Conscious Agents | Closer To Truth Chats

Donal Hoffman discusses his theory of consciousness and conscious agents, and how this theory affects everything from artificial intelligence to alien life and the Fermi Paradox. Donald Hoffman's Website: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Follow Donald Hoffman on Twitter @donalddhoffman

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Ken Mogi - How are Brains Conscious?

Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that brains generate inner subjective experience, the movies of our minds? Why do brains seem to be the only place where such mental magic occurs? Click here to watch more in

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