The Australian National University Centre for Consciousness was set up in August 2004 as part of David Chalmers’ ARC Federation Fellowship project. The project statement is as follows: This project aims to develop a research centre that will be a…
Year: 2006
The CCRG’s research revolves around the design and implementation of cognitive, sometimes “conscious,” software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling. Visit the CCRG website.
The Mind Science Foundation is dedicated to solving one of the major questions of modern science – The puzzle of human consciousness – by funding leading-edge scientific research and education focused on the mind/brain. Visit the Mind Science Foundation website….
Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book…
ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. Visit ASSC website.
Baars uses the theater metaphor in order to give an intuitive idea of his theory of consciousness known as Global Workspace Theory. Baars tell us about a “theater” in which the spotlight on the scene represents the focus of consciousness…
The most popular theory that tries to account for the extremely fast evolution of human brain is the “Machiavellian intelligence” hypothesis (also known as “social brain” hypothesis). Human brain has evolved much faster than other mammals. In only 25 million…
First of all, I would say that the concept of machine consciousness is not really new. What I think is new is the application of the latest scientific or philosophic models of consciousness in the Artificial Intelligence arena. Basically, machine…
We already knew that humans, great apes, and dolphins are able to recognize themselves in the mirror. Usually, the rest of higher mammals or other animals think the image in the glass belongs to another individual (if they understand the…
The knowledge we currently have about the human brain is comparable to the knowledge about the Universe we had in Galileo’s time, said the Novel Prize Torsten Wiesel during a meeting in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Mr. Wiesel argues that plasticity…