Can we finally understand the world as it is? Does the world exist as it is?! Or has there always been a world with human events? A world that was not independent and was formed under the influence of human consciousness?! Until now, we have come a long way from the sensory boundaries of the world with scientific discoveries! Physical theories are so far from human senses that they bring to mind the same ideas of the unseen world! We have inherited the ashes of the explosion of a previous world, and after breaking the physical symmetries, we are busy identifying all the eras of this world in the pit of this world! This is a very strange situation!
Aristotle is credited with the ‘discovery’, in the fourth century bc, that humans have five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch. But animal behaviourist Ashley Ward says the true number might be more than 50, including “a host of underappreciated but crucial senses”, such as those of balance and of time. To explore the science behind them, and how they work together to create our perception as a whole, he engagingly interweaves diverse evidence from biology, psychology, ecology, medicine, economics and even engineering...
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01466-3
This is true, I also think, we still don't know many things about man, his consciousness and understanding! Certainly, new technologies help people in this matter. Maybe man is waiting for his dreams to come true and I hope these dreams are not disturbing dreams!
Consciousness theory ‘is pseudoscience’
A letter signed by 124 researchers claims that a prominent theory about consciousness — integrated information theory (IIT) — is “pseudoscience” because it cannot be empirically tested...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1
The scientific debate around consciousness is livelier than ever: what it is, where it comes from and whether machines can have it. Cognitive neuroscientist Liad Mudrik reviews three books that tackle these thorny questions. The authors — philosopher Daniel Dennet, geneticist Kevin Mitchell and neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux — agree that consciousness gave humans an evolutionary edge. Dennet and LeDoux argue that consciousness can exist only in biological beings, but Mitchell suggests that artificial systems could follow our evolutionary trajectory: embodiment, sensing, acting, with some motivation and learning abilities, and a drop of indeterminacy. Whether this is a good idea, writes Mudrik, is a different question...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03335-5
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