How does the non-conscious become conscious?

How does conscious experience arise? The neural time factor.

How does the brain “produce” conscious subjective experience, an awareness of something? This question has been regarded as perhaps the most challenging one facing science. Penfield et al. [9] had produced maps of where responses to electrical stimulation of cerebral cortex could be obtained in human neurosurgical patients. Mapping of cerebral activations in various subjective paradigms has bee...

Non-conscious goal conflicts

Can Computers Become Conscious, an Essential Condition for the Singularity?

Given that consciousness is an essential ingredient for achieving Singularity, the notion that an Artificial General Intelligence device can exceed the intelligence of a human, namely, the question of whether a computer can achieve consciousness, is explored. Given that consciousness is being aware of one’s perceptions and/or of one’s thoughts, it is claimed that computers cannot experience con...

Non-Conscious Processing of Motion Coherence Can Boost Conscious Access

Research on the scope and limits of non-conscious vision can advance our understanding of the functional and neural underpinnings of visual awareness. Here we investigated whether distributed local features can be bound, outside of awareness, into coherent patterns. We used continuous flash suppression (CFS) to create interocular suppression, and thus lack of awareness, for a moving dot stimulu...

Conscious rabbits become tolerant to multiple episodes of ischemic preconditioning.

Although ischemic preconditioning protects myocardium from infarction in isolated hearts and in anesthetized open-chest animals, its effects have not been examined in unanesthetized animals. Furthermore, it is unknown whether animals become tolerant to multiple episodes of ischemic preconditioning. Rabbits were chronically instrumented with a balloon occluder around a major branch of the left c...