Conscious awareness refers to information processing in the brain that is accompanied by subjective, reportable experiences. Current models of conscious access propose that sufficiently strong sensory stimuli ignite a ...

What aspects of neuronal activity distinguish the conscious from the unconscious brain? This has been a subject of intense interest and debate since the early days of neurophysiology. However, as any practicing anesthesiologist ...

Here I summarize the theory of consciousness that is proposed in the target taper and that is translated there into various implications for medical practice, and then I go on to reply to each commentary on, and criticism ...

Here I summarize the theory of consciousness that is proposed in the target taper and that is translated there into various implications for medical practice, and then I go on to reply to each commentary on, and criticism ...

In this review, we discuss empirical results inspiring the introduction of a formal mathematical multilayer model for the biological neuroscience of conscious experience. First, we motivate the discussion through evidence ...

Throughout her short stories and novels, Clarice Lispector presents characters living and acting, as a whole, in a way that composes what Benedito Nunes identifies as a peculiar understanding of the world. The aim of this ...

This dissertation is an analytical study of two very influential conceptions of consciousness in contemporary philosophy of mind. The main focus of this research is twofold. First, it intends to describe both John Searle's ...

This dissertation is an analytical study of two very influential conceptions of consciousness in contemporary philosophy of mind. The main focus of this research is twofold. First, it intends to describe both John Searle's ...

How consciousness (experience) arises from and relates to material brain processes (the "mind-body problem") has been pondered by thinkers for centuries, and is regarded as among the deepest unsolved problems in science, ...