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Headaches have themselves

Citation added: May 18th, 2007, 6:57 am
Consciousness is all the rage just now. It boasts new journals of its very own, from which learned articles overflow. Neuropsychologists snap its picture (in colour) with fMRI machines, and probe with needles for its seat in the brain. At all seasons, and
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The Mystery of Consciousness - TIME

Citation added: January 20th, 2007, 4:58 pm
Whatever the solutions to the Easy and Hard problems turn out to be, few scientists doubt that they will locate consciousness in the activity of the brain.
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brain | neuroscience | philosophy | science

Edge: THE NEUROLOGY OF SELF-AWARENESS by V.S. Ramachandran

Citation added: January 12th, 2007, 4:36 pm
I suggest that self awareness is simply using mirror neurons for "looking at myself as if someone else is look at me"... This, in essence, is the basis of things like "introspection".
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brain | neuroscience | philosophy | human | behaviour

Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t - New York Times

Citation added: January 7th, 2007, 8:05 pm
It's an illusion: The order of brain activities seemed to be perception of motion, and then decision, rather than the other way around.
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Mind Hacks: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Citation added: December 23rd, 2006, 5:10 pm
Some dialogue from the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by physicist Janna Levin.
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