'Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence… The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness – rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it.' (Harris 2012, pp. 7-8)

After discussing various types of consciousness, several approaches to machine consciousness, software agent, and global workspace theory, we describe a software agent, IDA, that is “conscious” in the sense of implementing that theory of consciousness. IDA perceives, remembers, deliberates, negotiates, and selects actions, sometimes “consciously.” She uses a variety of mechanisms, each of which...

This paper proposes a new unsupervised technique for clustering a collection of documents written by distinct individuals into authorial components. We highlight the importance of utilizing syntactic structure to cluster documents by author, and demonstrate experimental results that show the method we outline performs on par with state-of-the-art techniques. Additionally, we argue that this fea...

Stylometry is usually concerned with finding an authorial invariant, and attempts at authorship identification often model authors based on topics, putting weight on consciously selected content words and their unconsciously controlled frequency. This paper presents two uses of stylometry that rely on factors beyond the control of the author: document dating to a given historical period by dete...

Synesthesia  is characterized  by consistent extra perceptual experiences in response to normal sensory input. Recent studies provide evidence for a specific profile of enhanced memory performance in synesthesia, but focus exclusively on explicit memory paradigms for which the learned content is consciously accessible. In this study, for the first time, we demonstrate with an implicit memory pa...

Three alcohol-dependent homosexual men with suicidal ideation and behavior consciously attempted to contract the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a means of committing suicide. The authors briefly examine the interrelationship among alcoholism and substance abuse, homosexuality, suicidal behavior, and AIDS; implications for the substance abuse treatment setting are noted. Early dia...

In this article, we contextualize the theme of political passions in field Sociology, noting that they are currently undergoing a period appeasement. First, because society has been overtaken by fad “political correctness”. Secondly, emotions have diverted elsewhere, is, to social networks, whose verbal violence aims, consciously or not, provoke another type passion, sort attempts destroy speci...

Professional practice is one of the preferred ways to produce new forms learning. It can be configured as thinking in action, which its implementation allows progressive adjustments ideas that translate into doing. The use educational pathways based on reflexivity allow consciously practical experience facilitate meaningful learnings, so work situations become chosen setting act reality and lea...

How general anesthesia interferes with sensory processing to cause amnesia remains unclear. Here, we show that activation of a learning-associated immediate early gene in rat olfactory cortices is uninterrupted by propofol, an intravenous general anesthetic with putative actions on the inhibitory GABAA receptors. Once learned under anesthesia, a novel odor can no longer re-activate the same hig...

BACKGROUND The fear-reducing properties of testosterone have been firmly established in animals but not in humans. However, human data on the relation between testosterone, fear, and anxiety have predominantly involved questionnaires that index cortically executed conscious appraisal of anxious mood. Animal studies, on the other hand, indicate that the effects of testosterone on motivation and ...