Tag: Christof Koch
Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?
Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs.
Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?
The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable.
Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development.
Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!
Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain.
It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain
The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain.