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- Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain’s Electric Fields
- Does Not Compute
- Is Starship A White El[on]ephant?
- Cloudbusting
- Computationalism: Dualism or Panpsychism?
- A Thought Experiment
- The Subjectivity Problem
- Thinking Dimensionally
- From Worm to Human
- Once More With Feeling
- The Birth of Consciousness
- Reality Is Analog
- Naked and Afraid AI Test
- Do We Misunderstand the Hard Problem?
- Ends and Odds 2
- Why Algorithmic AI Will Never Be Conscious (for materialists only)
- Fragmented Consciousness Theory
- Bubble Theory?
- The Idealist and the Psychedelic
- Problems with McFadden’s EM Field Theory
- Northoff Follow-up
- The Spontaneous Brain
- Consciousness as Mimicry
- Is Northoff Pointing the Way to Solve the Serious (Hard) Problem?
- Ends and Odds
- The Problem of Particles
- The Mystery of Consciousness
- Doughnuts in the Brain
- What Wind Tunnels Can Tell Us About Consciousness
- Waves and Dimensions
- Fickle Neurons
- Why Is There Magnetite in the Human Brain?
- The Doors of Perception
- Everything You Need to Know About Metaphysics
- Inspiration 4
- Artificial Neural Nets and Learning
- Veridical OBEs and NDEs?
- Electromagnetism Is a Property of Spacetime Itself
- Two Recent Articles on Neurons
- UFOs, UAPs, and UEPs(?)
- Did Homo erectus speak?
- The Other Simulation Hypothesis
- Secret Ingredient?
- The Hidden Spring
- Spontaneous Electrical Low-frequency Oscillations (SELFOs)
- Feeling Neurons?
- Civil Servant With No Brain Explained
- The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness
- Cellular Basis of Consciousness
- EM Field Integrates Information Spatially in Brain
- Time Loops
- Reporting Crows
- Fully Automated Luxury … Dancing? (A futuristic conspiracy theory) — Turing’s Radiator
- Brief Followup to World As Neural Network
- World As Neural Network?
- Origins of Qualia and Self
- Brain As Emulator
- Magnetic Universe
- Aging and the Gut Brain Axis
- Duke Study May Confirm McFadden Prediction
- The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul
- COVID-19 Vaccine
- COVID-19 Conspiracies
- Rubber Hands
- Does Science Need Metaphysics?
- COVID-19 Alternatives
- McFadden’s EM Field Theory: Part II
- McFadden’s EM Field Theory: Part I
- Decisions, Decisions
- The Unsolved Puzzle
- Hard[ly a] Problem
- Evolution, Learning, and Uncertainty
- Artificial Consciousness?
- EM Fields and Consciousness Research
- EM Fields and Consciousness
- Recalculating
- Temporal Resolution of Conscious Experience
- The Mystery From 70,000 Years Ago
- Building an Artificial Human
- The Hard But Unserious Problem of Consciousness
- Out of South Africa
- What Will it Take for Humanity to Survive?
- Question Marks and Hard Problems
- I’m Still Here. Where Are the Aliens?
- Followup to “Of Minds and Crows”
- World Stuff
- Of Minds and Crows
- Embrace of the Serpent
- Childhood’s End
- Blindsight
- Waking, Dreaming, Being, (Non-Being)
- How Nature Plays the Lottery
- Thinking About Thinking
- A Close Stellar Encounter
- The Raw and the Cooked
- Consciousness: Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing?
- Consciousness As a State of Matter?
- Snakes On A Brain
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Category Archives: Consciousness
The Birth of Consciousness
A recent paper takes on the extradimensional explanation for consciousness: From Black Holes Entropy to Consciousness: The Dimensions of the Brain Connectome. The author, Dr. Denis LE BIHAN, seems fairly legitimate with a number of papers and significant positions held … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Human Evolution
Tagged brain, hippocampus, Memory, mental-health, neuroscience
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Do We Misunderstand the Hard Problem?
Or, maybe the question I should be asking: have I been misunderstanding the hard problem? I had occasion to go back and look at Chalmers’ famous paper. Here’s one place where he talks about the hard problem: At the end … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Human Evolution, Intelligence
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Ends and Odds 2
This is the return of ends and odds. New McFadden Site Philosopher Eric, who has been a frequent commenter on this blog, has created a McFadden oriented website. Consciousness as an Electromagnetic Field A site for exploring Johnjoe McFadden’s cemi … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Electromagnetism
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