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 | Oct 15, 2022 | conscious brain, Cortex and Consciousness, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“One of the major errors in the Raccah et al. (2021) paper is that Raccah and his co-authors looked at the different brain regions as separate “neighborhoods,” without taking into consideration the functional interactions between its different parts.” –...
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 | 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 | Mar 15, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory
[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] ...
