“Even within the subfield of neuroscience where talk of consciousness is accepted, the number of scientists actually working with an open mind on new scientific theories of consciousness is extremely small.” #consciousness
Nothing in the brain makes sense except in the light of consciousness
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(2/2) Some researchers argue that we can’t know what people subjectively experience. All we know is what people *think* they experience. This drives skepticism towards consciousness research. I show that these worries are unwarranted. We can objectively know what people see.
(1/2) I have a new paper related to the problem of objectively determining what people consciously experience. It's here: philpapers.org/rec/MICTOA-2. Published in a book coming out soon on 'Conscious and Unconscious Mentality'. The book looks really great!
“Every scientific paper should have a reflexive treatment of the experimental investigation as a cultural practice that contributes to how the phenomena are being framed and understood.”
Here's a talk I gave yesterday for the Harvard Medical School Distinguished Lecture in Mind-Body Research and Health about the cognitive science of mindfulness practices www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAV...
Harvard Medical School Distinguished Lecture in Mindy Body Research and Health: This presentation will be our next annual HMS Distinguished Lecture in Mind B...
My latest for Aeon. 30 years ago we gave up the assumption that language is needed for consciousness, with great results. But consciousness remains puzzling. I suggest we can make real progress into the nature of consciousness by giving up the assumption that it requires a complex brain.
Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals
“A next frontier in #consciousness research is the disclosure of our metaphysical conflict of interests. Those who proudly claim they have no point of view are indeed blind. There is not a more dangerous philosophy than a science that pretends it does not have one. Know thy metaphysics!”
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Than some knew, I'd say. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, in fact, tightly coupled to nervous-system activity. A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, i...