Category: Consciousness
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Acquired and sudden savant syndrome
Full disclosure: I have a somewhat heretical view of the origin of consciousness. My intuition (supported by a small but growing number of respected scientists and philosophers, and an abundance of contemplatives and mystics) is that consciousness is not produced by our brain. Instead, the brain acts as a ‘reducing valve’ or filter of a…
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Federico Faggin on consciousness.
Federico Faggin is a physicist and inventor of both the microprocessor (the Intel 4004) and silicon gate technology. In this interview, he discusses his evolving views on consciousness, artificial intelligence, non-duality and his own spiritual epiphanies. This is not a hit-and-split entertaining watch whilst waiting to pick up the kids. This is a percolating, slow…
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Essay: who is it that experiences?
In this short essay, Dr Graham Stew probes the origins of all those thoughts, sensations and perceptions that constitute the lived fabric of our day to day reality. The tool he uses is Phenomenology, a branch of philosophy concerned with methodically exploring our inner subjective world via introspection. Right now, I am conscious of a Mozart…
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Brain volume and consciousness
The accepted view of mainstream science is that our sense of self originates somewhere inside our brain. That our consciousness is an epiphenomenon (or result) of the neural activity within our brain. However, to date there is absolutely no empirical evidence that explains exactly how this might occur. Interestingly, there are some fascinating case reports (like the…
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