Across contemplative, philosophical, and psychological accounts, human consciousness is often described along a similar spectrum, ranging from reactive and self-focused patterns to more integrative and coherent ones. Understanding whether language models encode such a structured, human-interpretable consciousness spectrum in representation space is important for model guidance, evaluation and...
Background: Adults over the age of 65 years are the fastest growing group of cannabis users, but there are few studies of the acute effects of cannabis in this population. Aims: In the present naturalistic study, participants were invited to smoke their preferred legal cannabis in the lab prior to tests of verbal learning and memory, executive function and information processing, and functional...