How come this thread is in "earth" sciences not "social?
Musroom grow in dirt?
O, O.K.
I listened on a science show to a brilliant American psycologist talk about Consciousness just the other day.( at an
International Conference on Consciousness
)
It is apparently a
hot issue in Psychology today.
I am not sure why.
It seems to me you are, (like computers?) either "on" i.e.,-conscious
or "off" i.e.,-unconscious or dead
I will try and find the radio show link and post it.
I can't find the talk, sorry.
But I found these links. They might keep you going for a while:-
1. Book Talk - 10/01/1998: The Evolution of Consciousness...
Summary: ... Saturday 10/01/1998 The Evolution of Consciousness. Summary: On this week's Book ... And why are dogs so human? All questions raised in his book Kinds Of Minds: Towards An Understanding Of Consciousness. ... Summary: On this week's Book Talk, another chance to hear the American philosopher Daniel Dennett discussing the evolution of consciousness, and along the way tackling the age-old mind-body question' ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bookta...es/s971003.htm - 16k - [ html ] - Cached - 10 Jan 1998
2. All In The Mind - 10/3/2002: Feature Interview: Susan Greenfield Contemplates Consciousness (transcript now available)
Summary: ... Many scientists when they write their books on consciousness and there have been a huge rash of them most notably in the 1990s, conflated mind and consciousness, I think consciousness was such ... foetus being conscious but not as conscious as a child. Natasha Mitchell: Levels of consciousness whether we have a deeper consciousness or a more shallow consciousness. ... Susan Greenfield: Now we talk in our adult lives about raising ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s498618.htm - 46k - [ html ] - Cached - 10 Mar 2002
3. All In The Mind - 10/08/2003: David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness
Summary: ... So some people think OK therefore science can t study consciousness, consciousness has to be left to one side. ... on jokes and how you analyse the structure of a joke. A workshop on another weekend on consciousness and we d talk about how to computationally model the mind So any question ... which people engage with questions of consciousness in say a state of meditation, and they talk about dissolving the boundaries of the Self And it ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s919229.htm - 47k - [ html ] - Cached - 10 Aug 2003
4. All In The Mind - 21/4/2002: Zombies and Human Consciousness (transcript now available)
Summary: ... That s consciousness. What defines a zombie is a zombie lacks consciousness entirely. ... Why is there consciousness in our world, and in particular, some people have used this as an argument to the effect that consciousness is something over and above a physical process. ... David Chalmers: OK, when people talk about consciousness they re talking about lots of different things. ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s534412.htm - 46k - [ html ] - Cached - 21 Apr 2002
5. All in the Mind: 4 September 2004 - Part 2 of 2 - The Nature of Consciousness debate
Summary: ... I mean some of us have this dream that you know the science of consciousness will be so much easier if we just had the mythical consciousness metre. ... I can wave the consciousness metre over Sue s head searching for consciousness and beep, beep, beep, I ve got a little bit of it. ... on. Self-consciousness, consciousness of one s self is this highly complex thing that you know we humans seem to have at least some of the time, maybe ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/min...s/s1184056.htm - 55k - [ html ] - Cached - 4 Sep 2004
8. The Brain of the Future
Summary: ... So what we are going to look at now is how will the new technologies impact on our consciousness and vice versa. ... We need to see how it is organised. Well we start off with consciousness and that is perhaps the biggest and most exciting question, not just for the scientists to ask, but ... Consciousness in itself is subject to another talk and indeed my latest book, Private Life of the Brain, published by Penguin, available at Amazon can go wrong. ...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/deakin/docs/greenfield.doc - 75k - [ doc ] - Cached - 15 May 2006
6. Cafe Scientific Menu
Summary: ... 10 pm Alun Anderson a brief history of consciousness 7. 20 pm Susan Blackmore Are you conscious now? ... And what the heck is consciousness anyway? Dr Susan Blackmore include Beyond the Body, Dying to Live on near-death experiences Test Your Psychic Powers The Meme Machine and a new textbook ... Does the stream of consciousness really exist? What can we do to develop our own unique consciousness? ...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/events...s/20040820.doc - 114k - [ doc ] - Cached - 15 May 2006
1. News in Science - Self-awareness is in the right brain - 19/01/2001
Summary: ... To know that our own face is ours inevitably requires a knowledge of the self. ... Keenan, who began researching self-awareness as a graduate student. It has been thought that this ability is a hallmark of consciousness. ... Studies of self-awareness may provide unique insights into consciousness and doctors hope eventually to use such information to help people with disorders that include a lack of awareness of self and ...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s235077.htm - 23k - [ html ] - Cached - 19 Jan 2001
