neuroscience Archives - Making Up Minds

Libet and Free Will

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:September 12, 2019
Post category:artificial intelligence consciousness neuroscience

The Atlantic has an article on free will and Libet's experiments that has been getting a lot of attention the past few days. It is actually discussing work from several…

More or Less Conscious

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:August 26, 2019
Post category:artificial intelligence consciousness neuroscience philosophy of mind

I posted about Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and how it strongly violates some of our intuitions about things that are conscious, and whether we can try to formalize those intuitions.…

Intuitions and Integrated Information Theory

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:August 26, 2019
Post category:consciousness neuroscience philosophy of mind

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a theory that says consciousness is a property of systems with integrated information, and that we can (in theory) measure how much consciousness a system…

Narrowing the Choice to Fundamental Consciousness or Illusionism

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:August 22, 2019
Post category:consciousness neuroscience philosophy of mind

Any neuroscientific explanation of consciousness is going to run up against the hard problem of consciousness. Take Global Workspace theories for example. Here is one such version by Dehaene and…