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- AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04047-6 3 comments
- [FC Midtjylland]: "Swedish national team player Kristoffer Olson is hospitalized and on a ventilator following a loss of consciousness in his home. The player is affected by an acute brain disease and is currently unconscious." https://www.fcm.dk/nyheder/meddelelse-om-kristoffer-olsson/ 48 comments soccer
- What is consciousness? It is possible that consciousness—as a kind of primary ‘operating system’—is present even in the complete absence of recognizable mental activity, argues dr. Woerlee with the authority of an anesthesiologist. https://www.essentiafoundation.org/what-is-consciousness/reading/ 21 comments philosophy
- Max Planck and the consciousness puzzle | Quantum mechanics suggests we need to radically reframe our thinking about consciousness. https://iai.tv/video/planck-and-the-consciousness-puzzle&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 571 comments philosophy
- [Alan van der Merwe] Good guy Lewis, stayed out just so we didn’t feel all self-conscious on our own https://twitter.com/alanvdm/status/1421912660552167432?s=21 88 comments formula1
- Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field? – Johnjoe McFadden | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/does-consciousness-come-from-the-brains-electromagnetic-field 5 comments philosophy
- GPT-3 and General Intelligence - David Chalmers. "I am open to the idea that a worm with 302 neurons is conscious, so I am open to the idea that GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters is conscious too." https://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/#chalmers 18 comments philosophy
- Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother is currently in the hospital after suffering a stroke this morning. Sources says she’s stable and conscious https://www.jn.pt/pessoas/mae-de-cristiano-ronaldo-sofreu-avc-11880669.html 40 comments soccer
- To solve a concept, we must move beyond the level of consciousness that created it. And from Ancient Greece to the modern day, thinkers have used mind-expanding substances to transcend the limits of the everyday and unlock their intellectual potential https://iai.tv/video/the-science-of-psychedelics?access=all?utmsource=reddit 3 comments philosophy
- Pregnant woman gangraped in Udaipur, boyfriend commits suicide. The accused men thrashed her boyfriend and later raped the woman multiple times before she lost consciousness. The woman was one-and-a-half-month pregnant. https://www.indiatoday.in/crime/story/pregnant-woman-gang-raped-1580236-2019-08-13 8 comments india
- Ideas on the functional role of consciousness, natural selection, the failure of modern psychology, and implications for the Fermi paradox. https://medium.com/@nickblood/ideas-about-consciousness-8d557e6a2979 29 comments philosophy
- Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/s1360-1385(19)30126-8 34 comments science
- Long-term meditation practitioners have a faster cortisol recovery from stress, finds a new study, which suggests the practicing meditation can improve the psychophysiological response to stress by reducing self-conscious emotions. https://www.psypost.org/2019/04/long-term-meditation-practitioners-have-a-faster-psychophysiological-recovery-from-stress-study-finds-53468 93 comments science
- Daniel Dennett, Facing up to the hard question of consciousness https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/a4lu56/daniel_dennett_facing_up_to_the_hard_question_of/ 23 comments philosophy
- Steven Rose on why neuroscience often falls foul of the mereological fallacy - that consciousness can be credited to a single part of your body and not the whole https://iai.tv/video/neuroscience-vs-philosophy?access=all?utmsource=reddit3 178 comments philosophy
- An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness https://amp.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html?__twitter_impression=true 4 comments science
- A Privacy-Conscious Approach to Sponsored Content – Future Releases https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/04/30/a-privacy-conscious-approach-to-sponsored-content/ 30 comments firefox
- Memory Conscious Programming in Ruby https://gettalong.org/blog/2017/memory-conscious-programming-in-ruby.html 4 comments ruby
- An idiot tries to sound smart about consciousness... https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/6a0eat/an_idiot_tries_to_sound_smart_about_consciousness/ 6 comments philosophy
- I'm David Chalmers, philosopher interested in consciousness, technology, and many other things. AMA. http://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf 635 comments philosophy
- Study: Split brain fails to yield split consciousness http://www.upi.com/science_news/2017/01/25/study-split-brain-fails-to-yield-split-consciousness/6171485354572/ 4 comments philosophy
- Actual Consciousness: why our minds aren't confined to our brains https://iai.tv/video/actual-consciousness 60 comments philosophy
- What Is It Like to Be Ourselves? A Debate on Consciousness and the Mind http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/10/25/what-is-it-like-to-be-ourselves-a-debate-on-consciousness-and-the-mind/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=feed:+partiallyexaminedlife/blog+(the+partially+examined+life+blog)&utm_content=%23philosophy 135 comments philosophy
- Peter Singer: If insects have consciousness, what then? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/if-insects-have-consciousness-what-then/article30019601/ 801 comments philosophy
- Netflix border-hopping crackdown angers privacy-conscious VPN users http://www.cbc.ca/1.3575660 3 comments worldnews
- Is the area between the left claustrum and anterior-dorsal insula unique in its apparent effect on consciousness? http://libgen.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1016%2Fj.yebeh.2014.05.027 3 comments askscience
- Epiphenomenalism and the Illusion of Conscious Will http://angeion.me/2014/06/30/epiphenomenalism-and-the-illusion-of-conscious-will/ 73 comments philosophy
- Consciousness more complex than we thought: while recovering from anesthesia the brain passes through multiple metastable activity states http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140609153429.htm 6 comments science
- Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings?goback=.gde_120409_member_271369413#! 881 comments science
- Scientists may have found evidence of consciousness in young infants. http://www.monolithmagazine.co.uk/gallery/tiny-consciousness 10 comments science
- Understanding the brain of a man with no conscious memory http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/understanding-the-brain-of-a-man-with-no-conscious-memory/ 4 comments science
- Emerging consciousness glimpsed in babies http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23401-emerging-consciousness-glimpsed-in-babies.html 10 comments science
- How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/30/consciousness-christof-koch/ 13 comments cogsci
- Octopuses Gain Consciousness (According to Scientists’ Declaration) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/08/21/octopuses-gain-consciousness-according-to-scientists-declaration/ 75 comments philosophy
- Mary, the Swampy Philosophical Zombie, Is In Your Chinese Room! Problems With Reductionist Theories of Consciousness http://levlafayette.com/node/337 36 comments philosophy
- Daniel Dennett -"A Phenomenal Confusion About Access and Consciousness" (Video) http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/daniel-dennett-phenomenal-confusion-about-access-and-consciousness 11 comments philosophy
- The case of Krista and Tatiana: conjoined twins that may share consciousness to some extent http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fmagazine%2Findex.jsonp 7 comments philosophy
- Neurologist explains how consciousness and 'the self' may not even really exist. "There is no spoon". http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2011/01/pleasures-of-reading-viewing-and.html 87 comments science
- Is there really a hard-problem of consciousness? http://www.wimp.com/foodsystem/ 92 comments philosophy
- Consciousness happens between the panels: How comics might explain consciousness http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/06/consciousness_happen.html 9 comments cogsci