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From 2012 - conjoined twins that may share consciousness
Video, 11 min.
from 2011. The twins apparently share a connection between each one's thalamus.
shifting highschool start times to 8:30 or later resulted in more sleep and improved grades
Use instrumental music that you like to tune out office noises. Let other people know that you have set aside certain hours each day when you don't want to be interrupted.
Attempt to measure onset of infant conscious experience by looking at EEG in visual cortex and in prefrontal cortex to a visual stimulus. Evidence of prefrontal response (correlate of conscious experience) appeared in 5 month old infants, with a longer delay and weaker signal, than in adults. Response got stronger in 12 and 15 month old infants. Next step is to run the test in even younger infants.
"You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."
~14 min
Mind-body problem: Uses body-mind analogy: H20 and water.
Phenomenal and access consciousness: experience vs using perceptual information in reasoning and control of action
The "hard" problem of consciousness - mind-body problem
The easy problem - functions of consciousness
Animal consciousness - similar perceptual experiences; can have phenomenal consciousness w/out frontal lobe involvement. Non=perceptual consciousness - emotions, more frontal involvement (?)
Grain of attention, the smallest area you can attend to, is larger than the grain of vision, the smallest area you can see.
Framework for mind-body problem: understand how mental concepts and physical concepts can pick out the same thing. Making finer grain distinctions on both sides, understanding attention, other kinds of consciousness.
Review of the evidence for and against widely-believed claims about drug addiction:
Claim A: All or most people who use heroin or cocaine beyond a certain minimum amount become addicted.
Claim B: No matter what proportion of the users of heroin and cocaine become addicted, their addiction is caused by exposure to the drug.