Michele Pasin / Quotes

Global neural ignition

Global neural network “ignition,” as it is sometimes called, means that neurons across your entire brain become active in response to a stimulus. This is in contrast to when a stimulus is flashed for only twenty milliseconds, for example.

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#brain #neuroscience #consciousness #perception

Neural correlates are not experiences

The second truth is that whatever thoughts and feelings are, they are not straightforwardly physical. You can’t see a memory under a microscope, and an…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #consciousness #brain #subjective-experience #neuroscience

Split-brain patients and two conscious fields

One of the ways to study consciousness is to study the pathological or degenerate forms of consciousness, and this is a method that I will use several times…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #brain #neuroscience

The building-block approach to consciousness

our present era is remarkable in that there is a large number of very able neurobiologists attempting to figure out exactly how brain processes cause…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #neuroscience #brain

The unified-field approach to consciousness

The second approach to the problem of consciousness, the unified-field approach, begins by taking seriously the feature of qualitative subjective unity that I…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #neuroscience #brain

I am everything I behold

“People may sense internal organs and physiological processes usually kept out of consciousness.” That was exactly what had just happened to me when I felt I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #perception #brain #consciousness #soul #nondualism

Mind at Large and the reducing valve

Earlier in his essay he had referred to possibilities broached by the English philosopher C. D. Broad. The function of the brain and nervous system and sense…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #consciousness #brain #survival #perception