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What if Consciousness has no Function?
In this commentary, as philosophers of evolutionary biology, we will consider the evolutionary framework used in the Target Article by: (i)...
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The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness
Life has evolved; and so must have consciousness, or subjective experience, as found in living beings, Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg contend. In...
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The complexity of the stream of consciousness
Typical consciousness can be defined as an individual-specific stream of experiences. Modern consciousness research on dynamic functional...
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Distributed harmonic patterns of structure-function dependence orchestrate human consciousness
A central question in neuroscience is how consciousness arises from the dynamic interplay of brain structure and function. Here we decompose...
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Neural complexity is a common denominator of human consciousness across diverse regimes of cortical dynamics
What is the common denominator of consciousness across divergent regimes of cortical dynamics? Does consciousness show itself in decibels or in bits?...
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Twenty-four-hour rhythmicities in disorders of consciousness are associated with a favourable outcome
Fluctuations of consciousness and their rhythmicities have been rarely studied in patients with a disorder of consciousness after acute brain...
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Uploading Human Consciousness
In this final chapter, I introduce a mind uploading process that consists of three stages—constructing a machine with neutral consciousness,...
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The Value of Consciousness
Consciousness, or sentience, is a crucial issue for conservation practices concerned with animals’ rights and welfare, but not relevant to the vast...
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There is Umwelt Before Consciousness, and Learning Transverses Both
We comment here on a target article by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg, which adds an interesting and important contribution to semiotic biology by...
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Is Consciousness Information or Algorithm?
Here, I lay out several thought experiments regarding the proposed test for machine consciousness and examine the grounds of currently proposed...
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From Biological to Artificial Consciousness Neuroscientific Insights and Progress
How does consciousness emerge from a brain that consists only of physical matter and electrical / chemical reactions? The deep mysteries of...
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The Quest for a Natural Law of Consciousness
In this chapter, we finally arrive at the true problem of consciousness and see what makes it such a uniquely difficult challenge. I present the...
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The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories
Understanding how consciousness arises from neural activity remains one of the biggest challenges for neuroscience. Numerous theories have been...
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The Mystery of Consciousness
In this first chapter, I define consciousness as subjective experience and present various illusions to demonstrate that it is totally a creation of...
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Pursuing the Shadows of Consciousness
In this chapter, we go one step closer to the problem of consciousness by examining how neuroscientists have studied it in recent decades. I also...
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Neural Manipulation for Causal Investigation of Consciousness
To further close in on the neural mechanism of consciousness, I introduce neural manipulation. Here, neural activity is artificially altered to...
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Machine vision-based estimation of body size and weight of pearl gentian grouper
Monitoring and evaluating fish growth and health relies on accurate aquaculture body size and weight data. Pearl’s gentian grouper has tender flesh...
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Identification of predictors for neurological outcome after cardiac arrest in peripheral blood mononuclear cells through integrated bioinformatics analysis and machine learning
Neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest (CA) is important to avoid pursuing futile treatments for poor outcome and inappropriate withdrawal...
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Functional Wavelet Connectivity in Resting State Reflects Consciousness Recovery in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
AbstractThe number of patients with a long-term unconscious state due to brain injury has increased over recent years. The extent to which their...
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Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach
Intelligence and personality are both key drivers of learning. This study extends prior research on intelligence and personality by adopting a...
