by Bernard J. Baars | Apr 6, 2023 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
EXPLORING THE SCIENCE OF EGO DEPLETION & WILLPOWER WITH PSYCHOLOGIST ROY F. BAUMEISTER Episode 27 features Professor Roy Baumeister, one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists, known for his work on the self, social rejection,...
by Bernard J. Baars | Feb 19, 2023 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
The olfactory system detects molecular odorants. It has both similarities and differences from the other senses. We often talk about five major senses: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Actually, there are more than five, like pain, sensory...
by Bernard J. Baars | Dec 27, 2022 | AI, conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Neurorobotics, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
Dr. Susan Schneider is Founding Director of FAU’s Center for the Future Mind, and co-director of the MPCR Lab at FAU’s new Gruber Sandbox, a large facility which builds AI systems drawing from neuroscience research and philosophical developments. For the...
by Bernard J. Baars | Nov 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
The home of the late Nobel Laureate, Gerald Edelman, is the setting for an elevated discussion on human consciousness among three neuroscientists and a professional magician. Bernie Baars opens the discussion by asking what is on top of everyone’s...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jul 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“I think in terms of consciousness, it seems to me that these Feelings of Knowing are perhaps the conscious tip of the iceberg for this huge amount of unconscious processing that’s going on of all this information in our environment, where maybe I couldn’t...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jun 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“One of the major features of the Global Workspace hypothesis began with limited capacity, that there has to be a compensatory event in the brain happening, and the most plausible one, for various reasons, including other people’s work, of course, was that...
by Bernard J. Baars | Feb 14, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Podcast, Psychobiology
. . . “In many cases you can see an immediate effect, as in chronic depression — suddenly you turn on the electrodes — you don’t tell them when it’s on or off, right? And...
by Bernard J. Baars | Aug 15, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, mindbrain
Suppose Captain Kirk and the Star Trek crew landed on a mysterious planet with an ancient, deeply buried Zombie civilization. How could Kirk find out if the Zombies are still secretly alive, somewhere deep underneath the planet? Or suppose your cell phone died one day...
