Category Archives: Consciousness

What Wind Tunnels Can Tell Us About Consciousness

Posted on July 10, 2022 by James Cross

Making certain a wing and fuselage design in a new airplane works as expected is critical before the airplane flies. It also isn’t easy. The dynamics of air flow is complicated and the number of variables so enormous that the … Continue reading →

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Waves and Dimensions

Posted on May 1, 2022 by James Cross

Brain waves were discovered over a hundred years ago and first measured crudely with an electroencephalogram in 1924. We know the brain is always active, even during sleep, and the patterns of activity change with our conscious state. A few … Continue reading →

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Fickle Neurons

Posted on March 13, 2022 by James Cross

A new paper, Beyond dimension reduction: Stable electric fields emerge from and allow representational drift, suggests that electrical fields generated by the brain stabilize mental representations. Here is the abstract: It is known that the exact neurons maintaining a given … Continue reading →

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