by Bernard J. Baars | Jun 15, 2021 | Unconscious Processes, Unconscious States
[This is an excerpt from Part II of my latest book On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity.] Looking directly at the brain we see great orderly forests of neurons, each...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jan 5, 2019 | conscious brain, Cortex and Consciousness, mindbrain, Unconscious Processes
An invitation to understand the mindbrain Cortex is the organ of mind. The double-decker cortex, both the outer neocortex and the inner paleocortex, were proposed to be the “organ of mind,” as pioneering neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield wrote, based on 1,200 open...
