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Proto-Intelligence in Qualia: a Simple Case
>> Do qualia like love, fear, pain, and pleasure causally influence us? I think that the evolutionary argument that qualia must influence us is sufficiently clear and easy to understand that there should be very little room for disagreement on the matter. Evolution wouldn’t have built phenomenal world-simulations composed of qualia unless they increased our…
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A Brain Implant that Automatically Detects and Kills Pain?
It’s basically a tag-team of spy and sleeper agent. The “spy” listens to electrical chatter in a brain region that processes pain—along with dozens of other tasks—and decodes it in real time. Once it detects an electrical signal that suggests “pain found,” it sends the information to the “sleeper agent,” a computer chip implanted in…
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Could CRISP eliminate the need for opioids?
Pain can soon be genetically eradicated. Chronic pain, which is classified as a pain that lasts for 3 months or more, affects between 19 to 50 percent of the world population. Despite its prevalence, it remains a difficult diagnosis to treat well. In a new study, researchers say there may soon be a new treatment…
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How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility: An approach to exploring what reality can be like
>> The goal of constructor theory is to rewrite the laws of physics in terms of general principles that take the form of counterfactuals — statements, that is, about what’s possible and what’s impossible. It is the approach that led Albert Einstein to his theories of relativity. He too started with counterfactual principles: It’s impossible…
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L’approche systématique de la souffrance: Un entretien avec Robert Daoust
English | French L’algonomie est le nom d’une discipline pour l’étude systématique de la souffrance, proposée par Robert Daoust. L’Alliance Algosphère, lancée par Robert et d’autres en 2011, est un réseau mondial ouvert et transparent d’individus et d’organisations, dédié à l’allègement de la souffrance. Sentience Research: Vous êtes l’un des fondateurs d’Algosphère. Comment l’organisation…
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Consciousness as something fundamental, that pre-exists in our Universe
Consciousness is fundamental, pre-exists our Universe and manifests in everything that we think of as real. A brain, as important as it seems, is nothing more than the way that non-local consciousness operates at an «avatar» level during a lifetime. The evidence that all of this is true is consistent and overwhelming. But mainstream science…
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Plant Cognition by Monica Gagliano
«Plant cognition is a new and exciting field of research directed at experimentally testing the cognitive abilities of plants, including perception, learning processes, memory and consciousness.The emerging framework holds considerable implications for the way we perceive plants as it redefines the traditionally held boundary between animals and plants.» Read more
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Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness
A key aspect of consciousness is that it represents bound or integrated information, prompting an increasing conviction that the physical substrate of consciousness must be capable of encoding integrated information in the brain. However, as Ralph Landauer insisted, ‘information is physical’ so integrated information must be physically integrated. I argue here that nearly all examples…