Hacker News with Generative AI: Consciousness

Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics (aspetjournals.org)
This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis.

Neuroscience, Psychedelics, Brain Science, Consciousness

12 points by ahiknsr 11 days ago | 0 comments

Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fermi paradox (sciencedirect.com)
Illusionism is an eliminativist position about qualia stating that phenomenal consciousness is nothing more than an introspective illusion.

Consciousness, Philosophy, SETI, Fermi Paradox

51 points by rbanffy 32 days ago | 69 comments

Should we be thinking about luck differently? (theguardian.com)
We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?

Philosophy, Luck, Consciousness

98 points by daverol 43 days ago | 59 comments

What's a Brain? (clairelevans.substack.com)
We all have one: three pounds of winkled grey-pink peering out at the world from behind castle walls of bone. It’s the seat of consciousness and dreams. It holds memories, harbors love, shocks with fear, awe, and pain; it works over the raw input of the senses, smoothing the chemical signals, wavelengths of light, vibrations and electrical messages it receives into a cogent picture of its realm.

Neuroscience, Consciousness, Philosophy, Biology

39 points by Hooke 52 days ago | 27 comments

New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness (sciencedaily.com)
New research by Wellesley College professor Mike Wiest and a group of Wellesley College undergraduate students has yielded important experimental results relevant to this debate, by examining how anesthesia affects the brain.

Anesthesia, Neuroscience, Consciousness, Research

150 points by isaacfrond 52 days ago | 234 comments

Brain detects patterns in the everyday: without conscious thought (nature.com)
The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in their brain tissue for medical reasons.

Neuroscience, Human Brain, Pattern Recognition, Consciousness

11 points by NoRagrets 53 days ago | 0 comments

The self awareness of the conscious mind (wordpress.com)
Lucas Cranach- The elder Adam and Eve. This was a popular subject in 16th century art and is an interesting painting in terms of self awareness. It is capturing the moment in the biblical story where Eve takes a bite from the apple from the tree of knowledge and is about to give the apple to Adam. Adam in doubt, she has been transformed by eating a piece.

Art, History, Consciousness

20 points by yamrzou 61 days ago | 3 comments

Understanding Consciousness (medium.com)
In any discussion of consciousness, it is important to get one thing straight at the outset — we do not know what consciousness is.

Consciousness, Philosophy, Neuroscience

7 points by Duximo 65 days ago | 0 comments

Is God a Strange Loop? (johnhorgan.org)
CAMBRIDGE, MA, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024. I recently hobnobbed with a writer, I’ll call him Bob, as obsessed with the mind-body problem as I am. The problem concerns, in a narrow sense, how matter makes mind, but it also encompasses the puzzles of consciousness, intelligence, free will, the self, meaning, morality…

Philosophy, Consciousness, Religion

29 points by XzetaU8 69 days ago | 10 comments

Psychedelic Drugs May Give a Glimpse into Near-Death Experiences (nytimes.com)
A survey revealed similarities between these two altered states of consciousness.

Psychedelic Drugs, Near-Death Experiences, Consciousness, Science, Surveys

8 points by bookofjoe 71 days ago | 1 comments

The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience (blogspot.com)
A substantial philosophical literature explores the "unity of consciousness": If I experience A, B, and C at the same time, A, B, and C will normally in some sense (exactly what sense is disputed) be experientially conjoined.

Philosophy, Consciousness, Experience

159 points by Hooke 72 days ago | 113 comments

Will humans ever become conscious? (springer.com)

Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy

21 points by rbanffy 75 days ago | 15 comments

The Problem with the "Hard Problem" (blogspot.com)

Philosophy, Consciousness, AI

22 points by KqAmJQ7 78 days ago | 48 comments

Out of Your Head (nautil.us)

Psychology, Consciousness, Neuroscience

89 points by dnetesn 89 days ago | 67 comments

Out of Your Head (nautil.us)