With infectious enthusiasm and great generosity, Cleeremans gives us a sense of the field and where it is going By Georgeann Sack Cleeremans in his office (source) Axel Cleeremans is a leader in the science of consciousness. Cleeremans is...
From exoplanet astronomy to the study of consciousness, seeing is believing By Georgeann Sack “Looking out of an observatory in Vicuna, Chile.” By DC_Colombia. Exoplanet astronomers analyze data from telescopes to create visual representations...
By Ben Callif Conscious choice and individual experience have a role to play in the progression of evolution and the emergence of new species For those visual learners among you (or those of you who don’t want to read 3,000+ words), here’s a video...
By Georgeann Sack Can we close the explanatory gap between the brain and experience? In a truly excellent review published in Frontiers in Psychology, authors Todd E. Feinberg and Jon Mallatt explain why conscious experience is so hard to...
by Ted D. Wade By Ted Wade How the conscious mind steers the unconscious Psychology has always made a big deal of the obvious. One such enthusiasm of recent decades was dual process theory (this actually got a Nobel, though it was in...
By Georgeann Sack We understand what we can touch There are two types of scientific advancement—facts and theory. One provides more information and the other synthesizes existing information into a comprehensive theoretical framework. It is the...
By Ted Wade You can’t tell an elephant what to do. Source: Ted D. Wade William James said (1892) we have a “stream of consciousness.” One thought after another. Research agrees that what you think changes rapidly, but you can’t focus your...
By Georgeann Sack What do you see? By 4khz Consciousness research has a problem. How can we investigate the hidden mental processes that make up our internal world? Subjective experience is hard to document scientifically. It is not time-locked...
By Georgeann Sack By Nataliashein. I have no doubt that every structure in the brain influences consciousness. The specific question I ask here is, what structures are necessary? Phrased differently, are there any regions of the brain that, if...
By Georgeann Sack Eureka Dunes and surroundings, panoramic photo by Georgeann Sack. Can geological processes inform us about consciousness? While visiting Eureka Dunes I had a eureka moment. I am meant to study consciousness, and to help others...