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- Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04540 578 comments
- Metacognition, commonly called “thinking about thinking,” is a central component of our conscious awareness. Along with its close relatives, “metamemory” and “meta-skills,” it affects the subjective human experience. https://cognitiontoday.com/metacognition-metamemory-meta-skills/ 5 comments philosophy
- Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." https://www.inverse.com/article/59676-spacex-starship-presentation 3 comments space
- Is human consciousness the end of the causal chain? https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/95oftj/is_human_consciousness_the_end_of_the_causal_chain/ 5 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
- Harvard researchers may have pinpointed the source of human consciousness https://futurism.com/harvard-may-have-pinpointed-the-source-of-human-consciousness/ 19 comments worldnews
- What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind? https://theconversation.com/what-if-consciousness-is-not-what-drives-the-human-mind-86785 9 comments cogsci
- Harvard scientists think they might have pinpointed the source of human consciousness http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-source-of-human-consciousness-2017-11 4 comments science
- The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics - "It is hard to avoid the implication that consciousness and quantum mechanics are somehow linked" http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics 562 comments philosophy
- Origin of human consciousness may lie in newly pinpointed brain network https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-do-you-know-you-know? 128 comments science
- Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness - New Research In Humans http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-reveal-how-lsd-affects-consciousness-1.19727 6 comments science
- AI will not kill us, says Microsoft: Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31023741 20 comments microsoft
- Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 3 comments technology
- Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 6 comments science
- Scientists find 'on/off switch' for human consciousness http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/scientists-find-switch-human-consciousness/ngzf8/?__federated=1 4 comments science
- Unpacking the toolkit of human consciousness http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/s38/91/90c37/index.xml?section=topstories,featured 5 comments philosophy
- Consciousness in humans and non-human animals: recent advances and future directions http://www.frontiersin.org/journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00625/full?utm_source=npg&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=content+marketing&utm_campaign=fbk_sm_1311_fpsyg&wt.mc_id=fbk_sm_1311_fpsyg 7 comments science
- Where did our subjective consciousness come from? Why don't humans do what we do without the sentient observer inside us, observing all our actions and thoughts? http://www.peterrussell.com/reality/rhtml/r2.php 17 comments philosophy
- Bicameralism - a theory of how human consciousness developed http://www.julianjaynes.org/evidence_summary.php 60 comments cogsci
- AI argues that humanities best choice is to “embed AI into our brains as a consciousness" and “that the only way to stop AI becoming too powerful is to have no AI at all” in Oxford Union debate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59687236 172 comments worldnews
- I have watched the rise of biologism with dismay: it is a consequence of the assumption that the only alternative to a supernatural understanding of human beings is a strictly naturalistic one that sees us as being less conscious agents than pieces of matter stitched into the material world. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-06-30-tallis-en.html 11 comments philosophy
- Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/1845/cosmic_consciousness_a_study_in_the_evolution_of_the_human_mind.aspx 5 comments philosophy
- Researchers from UC Berkeley and Princeton University have shown that humans and monkeys oscillate in and out of consciousness as much as four times every second, suggesting we are not actually conscious much of the time. https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans 24 comments science
- Daniel Dennett on human consciousness and free will http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/daniel-dennett-on-human-consciousness-and-free-will/3686776 17 comments philosophy
- Researchers have captured what happens in the split second before the emergence of consciousness, a fundamental state of human life. https://www.futurity.org/brain-consciousness-stimuli-1690992/ 3 comments science
- What is consciousness? Philosophers like Daniel Dennett and neuroscientists discuss theory of mind and what makes us human http://www.economist.com/node/21664284 393 comments philosophy
- Philosopher David Chalmers, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Laurie Santos and neuroscientist Nicholas Schiff on "The Thinking Ape: The Enimga of Human Consciousness". http://www.nourfoundation.com/videos/the-thinking-ape-the-enigma-of-human-consciousness.html 53 comments philosophy
- [video] The memory-prediction framework - Jeff Hawkins explains the universal algorithm that underlies human consciousness http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756&hl=en 2 comments reddit.com
- 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
- Humans subconsciously perceive words as 'round' or 'sharp'. Findings expand the limit of unconscious processing, demonstrating that crossmodal mapping occurs outside of the realm of conscious awareness. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/words-can-sound-round-or-sharp-without-us-realizing-it.html#.wjyuxhizmdw 9 comments science
- There is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322131504.htm 32 comments science
- Research on near-death experiences is unlikely to find evidence that human consciousness can survive without a brain http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/19/health.mentalhealth 149 comments science
- The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in their brain tissue for medical reasons. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03116-8 38 comments science
- Interview with Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard about her new book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals" in which she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html 461 comments philosophy
- Elon Musk Reveals Why Humanity Needs to Expand Beyond Earth: to “preserve the light of consciousness”. “It is unknown whether we are the only civilization currently alive in the observable universe, but any chance that we are is added impetus for extending life beyond Earth”. https://www.inverse.com/article/46362-spacex-elon-musk-reveals-why-humanity-needs-to-expand-beyond-earth 34 comments space
- High fashion's human cost: Armani factory workers in Cambodia try to stay conscious amid horrible conditions http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/high-fashions-human-cost 23 comments worldnews
- Neo-humanism? Cyborgs? Holographic bodies? We can’t even make a smartphone that doesn’t run out of juice after a few hours of heavy use, and we’re talking about putting human consciousness into a machine? The short answer is, yes. http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/dmitry-itskov-2045-initiative/ 87 comments technology
- Scientists demonstrate that (like bees and other animals) humans too can (subconsciously) detect the Earth's magnetic field - subjects were not consciously aware, but EEG data suggests responses were tuned to Earth-like (strength and direction) magnetic fields http://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2019/03/18/eneuro.0483-18.2019 7 comments science
- Scientists make first serotonin measurements in humans. The research provides the first ever recordings of simultaneous sub-second fluctuations in dopamine and serotonin during active decision-making in a conscious human subject. https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017304 19 comments science
- Dogs have learn to navigate subways: Moscow subway use by stray dogs "are just one of what are now thousands of recorded examples of wild, feral and domesticated animals demonstrating what appears, at least, to be what humans might call flexible open-ended reasoning and conscious thought." http://abcnews.go.com/international/technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833#.t-yadswmwsp 10 comments science