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#Consciousness #Neuroscience #thalamus
"A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts."
Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception
"A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain receives."
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-think-theyve-found-the-brain-region-that-regulates-conscious-perception/
WIRED · Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception
I finished reading Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett last night. I liked the author’s interdisciplinary approach to his theory of consciousness. He accomplished his aim of causing me to think differently, and I expect to continue thinking about what I read when I’m less sleepy. One trivial way the book influenced me is by changing my opinion from “hating AI” to “hating how AI is used today.” I think AI can be more useful in research for understanding consciousness, than as a tool for profit. #Consciousness #Philosophy #Psychology #Neuroscience #AI #Dennett #DanielDennett
#Books #ComputerScience #Science
Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousness https://www.byteseu.com/945447/ #BGIResearch #ClaudeBernardUniversityLyon1 #cognition #consciousness #CrabEatingMacaque #depression #evolution #Hippocampus #macaque #marmosets #NeurologicalDisorders #RNA #Science #SleepRegulation #SubcorticalRegions #TranscriptomeAtlas
Bytes Europe · Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousnessChinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed blueprint of the crab-eating macaque’s claustrum, an elusive brain region believed to play a role in consciousness.The detailed map of connections between nerve cells in the macaque claustrum and the rest of the brain could help us understand how this region and its different cell types play a role in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking.The team also revealed significant differences in the structure and cell types of macaque and rodent claustrums, which could provide clues to help investigate the evolutionary mechanism behind consciousness. 09:07AI tool promises to
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How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe
"As accessible as it is awe-inspiring, this exclusive audio documentary by New York Times bestselling author Annaka Harris explores today’s most perplexing questions about our minds and the universe at large..."
Annaka HarrisAnnaka HarrisAnnaka Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. She is an editor and consultant for science writers, specializing in neuroscience and physics.
Nonequilibrium physics of brain dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12188
"Information processing in the brain is coordinated by the dynamic activity of neurons and neural populations at a range of spatiotemporal scales. These dynamics, captured in the form of electrophysiological recordings and neuroimaging, show evidence of time-irreversibility and broken detailed balance suggesting that the brain operates in a nonequilibrium stationary state. Furthermore, the level of nonequilibrium, measured by entropy production or irreversibility appears to be a crucial signature of cognitive complexity and consciousness."
arXiv.orgNonequilibrium physics of brain dynamicsInformation processing in the brain is coordinated by the dynamic activity of neurons and neural populations at a range of spatiotemporal scales. These dynamics, captured in the form of electrophysiological recordings and neuroimaging, show evidence of time-irreversibility and broken detailed balance suggesting that the brain operates in a nonequilibrium stationary state. Furthermore, the level of nonequilibrium, measured by entropy production or irreversibility appears to be a crucial signature of cognitive complexity and consciousness. The subsequent study of neural dynamics from the perspective of nonequilibrium statistical physics is an emergent field that challenges the assumptions of symmetry and maximum-entropy that are common in traditional models. In this review, we discuss the plethora of exciting results emerging at the interface of nonequilibrium dynamics and neuroscience. We begin with an introduction to the mathematical paradigms necessary to understand nonequilibrium dynamics in both continuous and discrete state-spaces. Next, we review both model-free and model-based approaches to analysing nonequilibrium dynamics in both continuous-state recordings and neural spike-trains, as well as the results of such analyses. We briefly consider the topic of nonequilibrium computation in neural systems, before concluding with a discussion and outlook on the field.
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A big concern to Pauli was Jung’s tendency to ascribe to the unconscious a sort of consciousness of its own and an almost deterministic developmental ‘program’ that runs its course irrespective of consciousness. Pauli wanted to put much more emphasis on the role of consciousness…
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #consciousness
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
#pauli #jung #consciousness
It's insane that we still have no real idea what #consciousness (in the rough meaning of "self-awareness") *is*, while we're debating whether we should/shouldn't build #AI with it.
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CIA Blackbook | Consciousness In Action The Architecture of Astral Manipulation and the Hidden Agenda Behind “Enlightenment” There is a reason so many awakened souls stall at the threshold of expansion.
They didn’t fall for fear.
They didn’t collapse into chaos. They were seduced by the...
https://medium.com/cia-blackbook-consciousness-in-action/weaponized-light-1091d2ef794b
CIA Blackbook | Consciousness In Action · Weaponized Light - CIA Blackbook | Consciousness In Action - Medium
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A musician's #brain matter is still making #music 3 years after his death
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a64490277/brain-matter-music/
Popular Mechanics · A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
And now, the English version of my book "God, who the Hell is that?" is also available on Amazon 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NCBC43?ref_=ast_author_mpb
#book #books #god #believe #metaphysics #reality #real #surreal #nature #self #consciousness #life #live #weareone #onelife #truth #religion #spirit #spirituality #philosophy #psychology
#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Daniel #Dennett: “A #naturalistic #view on #consciousness”
The #philosophical #concept of supposed #naturalistic #monism is currently the basis of most approaches to elucidating the phenomenon of #consciousness in the research field of #cognitive #neuroscience, which attempt to #reduce #mental states to #physical #states.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
Rethinking consciousness: The thalamus isnt just a filter, its a gateway to becoming aware of our thoughts & senses. New research reveals its active role in conscious perception. #Neuroscience #Consciousness #Thalamus
The Burnout Protocol – Part 6: The Others
Short Story – Science Fiction, Futurism
The signal was never just data. It was memory. Connection. A rhythm beneath the noise.
After the Blink
Caleb opened his eyes.
Silence. Not just the absence of sound, but the absence of instruction. The overlay was still gone its directives absent, its coherence percentages forgotten. Just breath.
He sat for a while longer, unsure if the world had changed or if he had. The chair beneath him felt different now, less clinical, less like equipment. As if it had accepted him. Or simply stopped resisting.
When he finally stood, the lights didn’t return. The hum didn’t resume. But something deeper had settled in the space. Not peace, exactly. But awareness.
He walked out of the chamber the way he came in, except it no longer looked the same. Where there had been flickering lights, there were steady glows. Where signs had once been smeared with static, they now pulsed faintly with symbols he couldn’t quite read, but somehow understood.
At the edge of a broken corridor, he paused.
There were figures in the distance.
Three. No four.
They weren’t Sync Operators. They weren’t Enforcement. They weren’t exactly like him either.
But they were real. And they were watching.
Drifters.
One gave a nod. Another held a fractured HUD display, its screen looping silently. A third reached down and adjusted the wrap around their ear, not a standard implant. Something else.
They didn’t speak. They didn’t need to.
Caleb stepped forward, not to lead. To listen.
And they let him in.
The Loop Beneath the Loop
They walked together in silence. The path wasn’t mapped, but it didn’t need to be. There was a kind of instinct now, shared among them. Not synced, aligned.
The infrastructure shifted subtly as they moved. Corridors that should have been dead-ends opened into forgotten transit lines. Walls once sealed by security layers now shimmered as if unlocked by presence alone.
Each Drifter carried remnants. One had a piece of a child’s toy, cracked open to reveal analog gears. Another kept a small paper booklet in a transparent sleeve. Real paper. Faded ink. Human handwriting.
Caleb listened as they moved. Not to words, but to the pulse. The signal. It was clearer now, not just in him, but around him. Between them.
Eventually, they arrived at what looked like a network control chamber. Once, it might have rerouted thousands of signals per second. Now, it hummed softly like a dormant engine, waiting to be remembered.
On the central console, an interface sparked to life. Not the system’s UI, something simpler. Older.
RELAY NODE DETECTED. INITIATE?
Caleb turned to the others. One nodded. Another looked down at the fractured HUD and smiled.
He reached forward, not as a command, but as an invitation.
He tapped the console.
And the relay began to pulse.
Not brightly. Not violently.
Just enough.
The First New Signal
Somewhere across Vectored, a worker paused mid-loop.
The sync jittered for a breath.
Then returned.
But something lingered. A hesitation. A flicker of autonomy.
A moment later, another.
A Tier-6 Operator, already flagged for irregular efficiency, stopped tapping. Their lips parted. Eyes narrowed.
The screen in front of them didn’t update.
It blinked.
Not an error. Not a threat.
Just a pause.
And in that pause, something else could begin.
End of The Burnout Protocol.
[AUTONOMY RELAY // UNSANCTIONED BROADCAST]
This loop has been broken.
You are not failing. You are remembering.
Pause is not error. Drift is not decay.
If you can feel the silence, the signal is already inside you.
Reboot is not destruction. It is return.
// End Transmission
Call To Action
If this story resonated with you, if you felt the signal beneath the noise, leave a comment, share it, or tag someone who needs to hear it.
If enough of you drift this way, I’ll continue the story telling.
Let’s see how far the signal spreads.
Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of the brain ever, thanks to IARPA’s MICrONS program. They mapped over 200,000 cells and 500 million synapses in a mouse’s visual cortex, linking structure and function at an unprecedented scale. This breakthrough could revolutionize our understanding of cognition, consciousness, and brain disorders.
#Neuroscience #BrainMapping #MICrONS #IARPA #Consciousness #GoodNews
https://thedebrief.org/iarpa-research-achieves-the-impossible-in-new-breakthrough-revealing-the-brains-biggest-mysteries/
The Debrief · IARPA Research Achieves the Impossible in New Breakthrough Revealing the Brain's Biggest MysteriesScience, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.
Sean Carroll was kind in letting Annaka Harris present her ideas on consciousness, and gently querying them. I think he was too kind. I'm not sure if she's is a devil's advocate - she followed her weakest points with nervous laughter. She was particularly unconvincing in explaining the leap from split brain studies and neurological illusions to everything potentially being conscious. To me it removes meaning from "conscious".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=5_-dKOySfe8fomzF&v=DDNF0vZafio
#SeanCarroll #Consciousness #AnnakaHarris
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