SciShow: How Science Is Trying to Understand Consciousness

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Content of the Lesson: Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring a portion of this video. Click here to start using LastPass: https://lastpass.onelink.me/HzaM/2020Q2AprilSciShow Figuring out exactly what consciousness is and whether or not it could emerge in non-human things has stumped us for centuries. Now, analyzing it from a scientific perspective might not just be possible, but necessary. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.scirp.org/html/5-1390478_87017.htm https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/consciousness-might-emerge-from-a-data-broadcast/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/56909?seq=1 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/6976 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23165872 http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-spiritual-reductionist-consciousness-of-christof-koch https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2398212818816019 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05097-x http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu/assets/papers/2009/GWT-IJMC-2009.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535570/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/24965297?seq=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3970587/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/neural-correlates-of-consciousness https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-neuroscience/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771980/ https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-global-workspace-consciousness-explained/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11426233 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771980/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238423831_Consciousness_is_computational_The_LIDA_model_of_global_workspace_theory http://integratedinformationtheory.org/publications.html https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2016.44 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/testing-for-consciousness-in-machines/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness https://www.jstor.org/stable/56909?seq=1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13554790902724904 Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Crick_crop.jpg


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