Here are 3 tests to figure out if a human, or other animal, is really conscious or just faking it. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65874-tests-for-consciousness.html
Tag: Consciousness
Group of Biologists Tries To Bury the Idea That Plants Are Conscious
Frustrated by more than a decade of research which claims to reveal intentions, feelings and even consciousness in plants, more traditionally minded botanists have finally snapped. Plants, they protest, are emphatically not conscious. From a report: The latest salvo in the plant consciousness wars has been fired by US, British and German biologists who argue that practitioners of “plant neurobiology” have…
Signs of ‘Hidden Consciousness’ May Predict Who Will Emerge from a Coma
People who showed signs of hidden consciousness after a brain injury were more likely to eventually recover. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65805-hidden-consciousness-recovery-from-coma.html
Woman who ‘died’ wrote haunting message
A woman whose heart stopped for 27 minutes wrote down something unexpected after regaining consciousness. When Tina Hines suffered a heart attack rece… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328670/woman-who-died-wrote-haunting-message…
Brain mysteries: A user’s guide to the biggest questions of the mind
What happens when we think? How do we explain consciousness? Why are some brains resistant to decline? We answer the biggest questions about your most important organ Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232350-800-brain-mysteries-a-users-guide-to-the-biggest-questions-of-the-mind/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain
What happens when we think? Why are some brains resistant to decline? How do you make a brain? What makes you smart? Find out in our guide to the most important organ Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232350-800-explaining-consciousness-and-the-other-biggest-mysteries-of-your-brain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness
The first studies of people with hyperphantasia – hyper-vivid mental imagery – are revealing how our imaginations shape the world we perceive and make us who we are Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232330-300-how-people-with-extreme-imagination-are-helping-explain-consciousness/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A new experiment didn’t find signs of dreaming in brain waves
Brain activity that powers dreams may reveal crucial insight into consciousness, but a new study failed to spot evidence of the neural flickers. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dreaming-brain-waves-consciousness-dream-catcher4…
Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov
Image by Luigi Novi. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons We remember Oliver Sacks as a neurologist, but we remember him not least because he wrote quite a few books as well. If you read those books, you’ll get a sense of Sacks’ wide range of interests — invention, perception and misperception, hallucination, and […]
Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of…
What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic
Even if you don’t care about high fashion or high society — to the extent that those two things have a place in the current culture — you probably glimpsed some of the coverage of what attendees wore to the Met Gala earlier this month. Or perhaps coverage isn’t strong enough a word: what most of […]
What is Camp? When the “Good…