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 | Aug 1, 2022 | conscious brain, Cortex and Consciousness, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“I think a feature, like Bernie mentioned, of sleeping is that we’re not attending to things in our sensory environment in the same way. Maybe we’re dreaming, maybe we don’t have any awareness of what’s going on, but our brain doesn’t just stop working.”...
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 | Apr 20, 2021 | conscious brain, Global Workspace Theory
“So, I want to just return to the Global Workspace Theory. You’retelling me about the context in which it arose, which was in a time when people were beginning to imagine that the brain might work something like a computer. And what I’m hearing you say is that in some...
by Bernard J. Baars | Mar 1, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory
. . . “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...
