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PsyArXiv October 24, 2024 John Howard preprint
The B-Man Stra/Tac model is new and comprehensive and intended to replace previous theories of consciousness and the mind. I am confident it is correct, based on the model’s coherence and its explanation of so much of human behaviour. David Chalmers’ idea of the Hard Problem of Consciousness can be considered on two levels, the functional level, why are we conscious, why do we have conscious...
arXiv Preprint Archive October 24, 2024 Sirui Chen, Shu Yu, Shengjie Zhao et al. preprint
Self-consciousness, the introspection of one's existence and thoughts, represents a high-level cognitive process. As language models advance at an unprecedented pace, a critical question arises: Are these models becoming self-conscious? Drawing upon insights from psychological and neural science, this work presents a practical definition of self-consciousness for language models and refines ten...
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind October 23, 2024 David Builes
Abstract According to Idealism, every fundamental entity is conscious, and moreover every fundamental property is a phenomenal property. The goal of this chapter is to defend “Modal Idealism,” which is the thesis that Idealism is metaphysically necessary. In particular, I give four different arguments for Modal Idealism. First, I argue that, if at least some possible fundamental properties are...
Philosophy of Science and Technology October 23, 2024 Nicholas Humphrey
The lecturer puts forward a thesis according to which an evolutionist approach to consciousness can solve its “hard problem” with radical implications for understanding of animal sentience. Taking off from his discovery of blindsight – insentient vision – after removal of the visual cortex in a monkey, named Helen, Humphrey argues that “phenomenal consciousness” is a relatively late...
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology October 23, 2024 Rui Dai, Hyunwoo Jang, Anthony G. Hudetz et al. 1 citation preprint
Understanding neural mechanisms of consciousness remains a challenging question in neuroscience. A central debate in the field concerns whether consciousness arises from global interactions that involve multiple brain regions or focal neural activity, such as in sensory cortex. Additionally, global theories diverge between the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) hypothesis, which emphasizes frontal...
Archives of Anatomy and Physiology October 22, 2024 HW Funk Richard
This review presents biophysical and quantum physical aspects of informational processes coming from the early evolution till the human brain. Here, the sophistication in the layered cortex architecture as well as the functional orientation of its areas has built nearly “free” zones for associations and connections. With our self-consciousness, a further horizon is reached which represents a...
The Philosophical Quarterly October 22, 2024 Marcelino Botin
Abstract The meta-problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why we believe that there is a hard problem of consciousness. A solution to the former promises to take us one step closer to solving the latter. While many hope for a physicalist realist solution to the meta-problem, I argue that the two prominent physicalist realist positions in the literature, orthodox Russellian and...
The Japanese Journal of Personality October 21, 2024 Junyi Shi, Eiko Matsuda 1 citation
Lucid dreaming is defined as achieving conscious awareness of dreaming while still asleep. Lucid dreaming can manipulate scripts and is known as a non-pharmacological treatment for nightmares caused by psychological stress. This study examined the relationship between the type of lucid dreaming (self-awareness and script control), Big Five, and stress coping styles using a web-based survey of...
Scientific Reports October 19, 2024 Yuta Euchi, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Yoshihiro Miyake
Previous studies have reported that bodily self-consciousness could be altered so that one’s body was perceived in extra-personal space. However, whether this could be induced without tactile stimuli has not been investigated. We investigated whether out-of-body illusion could be induced via synchronized audio-visual stimuli, in which auditory stimuli were used instead of tactile stimuli. We...
PsyArXiv October 18, 2024 Kiana Marie Sabugo, James Elliott, Jonathan W. Schooler et al. preprint
While meditation research has primarily focused on mental health outcomes and immediate cognitive and affective benefits, little is known about its influence on higher-order beliefs, such as views on free will and personal agency. Despite substantial references to free will and related concepts in Buddhist philosophy, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical work investigating the...