Review of Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans by Robert Beshara

“…Understanding Consciousness can almost be said to have a plot/narrative, or a dramatic structure similar to the ‘three-act structure’ model used by numerous screenwriters. …”
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Editorial: Dissociations between neural activity and conscious state: a key to understanding consciousness by Joel Frohlich, Joel Frohlich, Julia S. Crone, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Daniel Toker, Daniel Bor, Daniel Bor

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Quantifying empirical support for theories of consciousness: a tentative methodological framework by Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup

“…Understanding consciousness is central to understanding human nature. …”
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Is iconic memory iconic? by Quilty-Dunn, J

“…The iconicity of iconic memory has significant consequences for understanding consciousness, nonconceptual content, and the perception–cognition border. …”

Connecting Consciousness to Physical Causality: Abhinavagupta’s Phenomenology of Subjectivity and Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory by Loriliai Biernacki

“…This particular configuration is mostly absent in Western Cartesian models for understanding consciousness and in Indian philosophical speculations on consciousness. …”
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On the nature and origin of the human psyche by Vyacheslav A. Ivannikov

“…The third meaning consists in understanding consciousness as cognitive and transformative (constructive) human activity that creates new conditions of life. …”
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Ecological momentary assessment of mind-wandering: meta-analysis and systematic review by Issaku Kawashima, Tomoko Hinuma, Saori C. Tanaka

“…Abstract Mind-wandering (MW) is a universal human phenomenon and revealing its nature contributes to understanding consciousness. The ecological momentary assessment (EMA), in which subjects report a momentary mental state, is a suitable method to investigate MW in a natural environment. …”
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The Human Self Has Two Serial Aspects and Is Dynamic: A Concept Based on Neurophysiological Evidence Supporting a Multiple Aspects Self Theory (MAST) by Peter Walla, Georg Northoff, Cornelia Herbert

“…Understanding the neural processes that are involved in self-referential processing and functioning may also be crucial to understanding consciousness. The current short communication goes beyond the typical concept that the self is singular, as has been assumed from neuroanatomical descriptions of the self by fMRI and PET studies. …”
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The feelings of knowing – fundamental interoceptive patterns (FoK-FIP) system: connecting consciousness to physics by Holly Pollard-Wright

“…In this way, the FoK-FIP theory represents an efficient framework for understanding consciousness and its phenomena. The transdisciplinary modeling of the FoK-FIP theory creates contextual bridging between classical theory and quantum theory as well as a broad range of empirical research so that biology and information connect, creating new avenues for disease diagnosis, intervention, and prevention. …”
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A Resource-Efficient Multi-Function Embedded Eye Tracker System Implemented on FPGA by Ahmad Mouri Zadeh Khaki, Sanghyeok Yang, Hyunsoo Kim, Ankur Singh, Byung-Geun Lee

“…Moreover, the proposed ETS is capable to detect pupil size which is vitally important in understanding consciousness of the user since it varies in response to light condition. …”
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Varieties Of Evolved Forms Of Consciousness, Including Mathematical Consciousness by Aaron Sloman

“…I shall introduce a complex, apparently unique, cross-disciplinary approach to understanding consciousness, especially ancient forms of mathematical consciousness, based on joint work with Jackie Chappell (Birmingham Biosciences) on the Meta-Configured Genome (MCG) theory. …”
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Art and Perception: Using Empirical Aesthetics in Research on Consciousness by Ulrich Ansorge, Ulrich Ansorge, Ulrich Ansorge, Matthew Pelowski, Matthew Pelowski, Cliodhna Quigley, Cliodhna Quigley, Markus F. Peschl, Markus F. Peschl, Helmut Leder, Helmut Leder

“…Understanding consciousness is a major frontier in the natural sciences. …”
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What Is Consciousness? Integrated Information vs. Inference by James E. Cooke

“…From this perspective, we can understand consciousness as being dependent on a system possessing non-trivial amounts of integrated information while holding that the process of inference performed by the system is the fact of consciousness itself.…”
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Practical experiences in daycare and the development of baby awareness by Irineu Aliprando Tuim Viotto Filho, José Ricardo Silva, Rod Parker-Rees

“…This text aims to defend the pedagogical practices experienced at the daycare as promoters of the baby's awareness development. We understand consciousness as a typically human capacity that develops through social interactions and cultural appropriations since the birth of the baby. …”
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In Vivo : a perspective on consciousness 
through interdisciplinary collaboration in an age of man, nature and technology by Tan, Jun Kang

“…By using man made technology on plants, the work plans to approach and understand consciousness in plants as a methodology to understand human consciousness.…”
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Answering questions about consciousness by modeling perception as covert behavior by Gustav eMarkkula

“…It is discussed how an organism endowed with such a machinery could, from its first-person perspective, come to adopt notions such as subjective experience, and of there being hard problems and explanatory gaps to be addressed in order to understand consciousness.…”
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Souls and Selves: Querying an AI Self with a View to Human Selves and Consciousness by Andrew Oberg

“…I will argue that there are reasons to think so, but that everything hinges on how we understand consciousness, and hence ruminating on that area—and the possibility or lack thereof in extension to non-organic devices—will comprise our summative consideration of the pertinent theoretical aspects. …”
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國立大專校院預算員額調控機制之研究：政策問題之建構與分析 The Mechanism of Managing Budgeted Staff in National Universities and Colleges: Problem Construction and Analysis... by 陳敦源 Don-Yun Chen, 賴怡樺 Yi-Hua Lai, 郭昱瑩 Yu-Ying Kuo, 葉馨 Hsin Yeh

“…Literature Review Problem construction is crucial and involves understanding conscious choice through quantitative and qualitative analyses (Checkland, 2006). …”
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