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What is the definition of 'consciousness'? I have read papers where it seems that the definition of 'consciousness' is verbal report, or report that corresponds
by kghose 14y ago
What is the definition of 'consciousness'? I have read papers where it seems that the definition of 'consciousness' is verbal report, or report that corresponds to almost 100% detectability of a signal.
- pygy_ 14y agoConsciousness is defined as the ability to experience things subjectively. There are active paradigms to detect it in non-communicating subjects (playing tennis in one's head while in an FMRI, for example), and research is under way to find passive paradigms. See for example: Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21566197 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21566197 , or this: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/a-tool-to-quantify-consciousness.html http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/a-tool-to-quantify-cons...