#26 – SMELL, TASTE & CONSCIOUSNESS: A Special Interview with Neurobiologist, Dr. Stuart Firestein.

#26 – SMELL, TASTE & CONSCIOUSNESS: A Special Interview with Neurobiologist, Dr. Stuart Firestein.

    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...
#25 – Human Consciousness & AI: What Does the Future Hold? A Special Interview with Dr. Susan Schneider

#25 – Human Consciousness & AI: What Does the Future Hold? A Special Interview with Dr. Susan Schneider

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...
#24 – “The Conscious Brain Evolved” with Jay Giedd, David Edelman & Mark Mitton

#24 – “The Conscious Brain Evolved” with Jay Giedd, David Edelman & Mark Mitton

  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...
#17: Global Workspace Theory: Exploring Evidence for Widespread Integration & Broadcasting of Conscious Signals

#17: Global Workspace Theory: Exploring Evidence for Widespread Integration & Broadcasting of Conscious Signals

“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...
The Parts of a Theater: Major features of conscious cognition can be approached with a theater metaphor, an ancient but still useful idea.

The Parts of a Theater: Major features of conscious cognition can be approached with a theater metaphor, an ancient but still useful idea.

[This is an excerpt from Part II of my latest book On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity and is Part 2 in a 3 Part series on “A Working Theater of Consciousness”. To read part 1, please click here]                                                                ...
Bernard Baars on Tackling Consciousness Scientifically : The CogNation Podcast Interview

Bernard Baars on Tackling Consciousness Scientifically : The CogNation Podcast Interview

                                                        . . .  “Why don’t we start out with a little bit of a definition of what we’re talking about when we’re talking about ‘consciousness’, because we can mean a whole lot of different things by it. I’m wondering if...

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