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- How Do I Know I'm Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? https://www.thecollector.com/how-do-i-know-im-not-the-only-conscious-being-in-the-universe/ 2 comments
- If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02684-5 3 comments
- What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (2013) https://philosophynow.org/issues/99/What_Did_Mary_Know 167 comments
- How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious https://nautil.us/blog/-heres-how-well-know-an-ai-is-conscious 5 comments
- How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious http://m.nautil.us/blog/-heres-how-well-know-an-ai-is-conscious 90 comments
- How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious http://nautil.us/blog/heres-how-well-know-an-ai-is-conscious 27 comments
- How Well Do We Know Our Conscious Experience? The Case of Echolocation (2000) http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Echo.htm 3 comments
- The Limits of Knowing: Consciousness, Subjectivity, and the Challenge of Communicating Reality https://apolloanderson.substack.com/p/the-treachery-of-images?r=m1j0d 13 comments philosophy
- Science as we know it can't explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming https://theconversation.com/science-as-we-know-it-cant-explain-consciousness-but-a-revolution-is-coming-126143 86 comments philosophy
- A Neuroscience major I know argued that the mind is separate from the body and modern Neuroscience backs that assertion up. Is consciousness rooted in physical processes? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/agdxlu/a_neuroscience_major_i_know_argued_that_the_mind/ 141 comments askscience
- New presentation from Steven Greer about conscious. I know there's a lot of scepticism about him, but what do you think of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stWjS8ME1U8 12 comments aliens
- An assessment of whether robots can be conscious, and if so, if we could actually know that they are. http://askepticalhuman.blogspot.com/2015/09/can-robots-be-conscious-if-so-how-could.html 165 comments philosophy
- If you already know what you are about to see, you will recognise it faster - Until now, neuroscientists assumed that the processes leading up to conscious perception were rather rigid and that their timing did not vary. http://www.mpg.de/1071918/expectations_awareness?filter_order=l 11 comments science
- Steven Laureys: How I know 'coma man' is conscious http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18209-steven-laureys-how-i-know-coma-man-is-conscious.html 14 comments worldnews
- What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness http://www.livescience.com/history/080502-hn-minds.html 47 comments science
- If AI becomes conscious, how will we know? | "Scientists and philosophers are proposing a checklist based on theories of human consciousness" https://www.science.org/content/article/if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know 107 comments artificial
- Putin advisor says 'Russia is playing with the West’s minds' - 'They don’t know how to deal with their own changed consciousness,' says influential Kremlin aide. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russia-kremlin-vladislav-surkov-grey-cardinal-moscow-a8773661.html 84 comments worldnews
- People can still be conscious after they are dead; their mind still works and they know they’re dead, scientists say http://padigist.com/people-can-still-conscious-dead-mind-still-works-know-theyre-dead-scientists-say/ 5 comments science
- A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Know It "the approach relies on implicit learning—the sort of learning that occurs through sheer repetition, such as learning to ride a bike, that the learner can’t verbally explain to prevent passwords from being compromised" http://www.technologyreview.com/news/515726/a-password-so-secret-you-dont-consciously-know-it/ 3 comments technology
- Why aren't physicists freaking out over not knowing what causes consciousness to emerge from matter? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything_%28philosophy%29#Ways_forward 53 comments askscience
- Why you don't know your own mind: the consciousness you think you have isn't the consciousness you actually have, because there's always a gap between reality and what humans intuit - ascertaining which parts are accurate should be the top priority for philosophers of mind https://iai.tv/articles/why-you-dont-know-your-own-mind-auid-1297 264 comments philosophy
- You probably know what self-consciousness is. But do you know what 'reflective self-consciousness' is? It is a subject-reflexive awareness of being in a subject-reflexive state. I know, that's just jargon. So here is an explanation (with drawings): https://byrdnick.com/archives/11793/christopher-peacocke-reflective-self-consciousness 9 comments philosophy
- Now that we know most World Cup squads, Excel spreadsheet I made to automatically rank guesses with friends (offline - Privacy conscious) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9mc3Ka9r6_yNldFSUx3WlJUTlU/edit?usp=sharing 3 comments soccer
- Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness - "Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness - the awareness of one's existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don't really know where it comes from, and how it arises." http://www.sciencealert.com/harvard-scientists-think-they-ve-pinpointed-the-neural-source-of-consciousness 245 comments worldnews
- The hard problem of metaphysics: figuring out if other phenomena exist in our universe that like consciousness require we bear a specific metaphysical relation to them - i.e. you can't know of consciousness without being conscious. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-hard-problem-of-metaphysics 149 comments philosophy
- The Hard Problem of AI Consciousness | The problem of how it is possible to know whether Google's AI is conscious or not, is more fundamental than asking the actual question of whether Google's AI is conscious or not. We must solve our question about the question first. https://psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/the-hard-problem-of-ai-consciousness?s=r 1175 comments philosophy
- So we are beginning to have vague ideas about how our consciousness is formed. So yes, maybe in some years. We will create a conscious entity. I do not know how to feel about it. Or if I live to see it. And you? https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-brain-generation-loss-13009/ 27 comments artificial
- Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-primitive-consciousness-emerges-awaken-anesthesia.html 65 comments science
- To Engage Flying Saucer Intelligences, It Is More Important Who You Know, Than What You Know: The Consciousness Connection Appears to Be Transferable. J. Burkes MD 2016, edited 2020 https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/prime-contactees-a-special-group-of-contact-experiencers-and-why-they-are-important/ 63 comments aliens
- A 21-year-old woman in El Salvador whose baby was found dead in the toilet where she gave birth has been cleared during a retrial: Evelyn Hernández maintained she was innocent, saying that she did not know she was pregnant and lost consciousness during the birth. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49368632 12 comments worldnews
- Would knowing the carbon footprint of your everyday spending help you in your effort to be eco-conscious? I have created an app that integrates everyday smart money management with eco-conscious spending. https://wyzr.uk/ 12 comments climate
- What other examples are there of a final consonant’s voicing being used to differentiate a verb and noun? I know stress is a common way of differentiating in English but this is the first time I’ve consciously seen voicing being the deciding factor None 41 comments linguistics
- The Dreaming God Theory - To solve the hard problem of consciousness we must remain open to the fact that human perception is limited by sensory experience. For all we know, everything we think we know is known only by the finite limitations of a subjective mind-body complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bt=1s&v=kLIzo7UZ89Y 11 comments philosophy
- [Maven] Jaguars HC Doug Marrone says he knows there will be questions on the NFLPA statement but he made a conscious decision to not dive into the matter due to the situation with the season, coaches and players. Says he hopes in the future they will have something on it https://twitter.com/JaguarMaven/status/1207330934590181376?s=20 11 comments nfl
- Today I Died.... What happens after the body has stopped living? What experiences does the dying go through? Can the brain live on after clinical death or is it something else? What do we know about Consciousness? New science research reveals some startling findings. http://www.sciencedump.com/content/today-i-died-bbc-science-documentary 5 comments cogsci
- Candidate Obama in 2008 "...if I found out that there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law..." http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6fsw6/obama_would_ask_his_ag_to_immediately_review/?already_submitted=true 22 comments politics