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My proposal of a scientific theory of Sentience - to be called Sentiomics - gives a systemic explanation of this phenomenon. The cold sensation is not a reflex of the physiological state of the...
23 May 2021 2,762 25 View
Now is the time to begin thinking of biomarkers of sentience and consciousness. The desiderata of a biomarker are: "The ideal biomarker would be – Perfectly correlated with the clinical endpoint...
23 September 2020 7,648 100 View
The most difficult scientific advances become possible when you ask the right question. In the case of COVID-19, I understand that the right question is: why do some people become seriously...
02 April 2020 2,148 61 View
There are several clinical results suggesting that metformin is beneficial to prevent the formation of cancer tumors, but at least one result (see below) indicates that metformin can cause...
22 September 2017 6,673 41 View
Philosopher Merleau-Ponty claimed that the feeling Self is the living body or its flesh. In this case, a conjecture can be made that siamese brothers or sisters would not have opposite feelings...
26 February 2016 9,325 9 View
Plato, while criticizing his opponents, classically defined their concept of knowledge as "true justified belief". The cognitive belief is the belief in a proposition. Is it different from the...
17 February 2016 1,642 90 View
More precisely, "what is the origin of the regularities in nature which are represented (or purported to be represented) in our various recognized or accepted laws and principles regarding nature...
04 January 2016 7,826 98 View
"Conscious activity" here means Primary Consciousness (G. Edelman), or Sentience in the sense of the capacity of Feeling. There is no doubt that higher cognitive functions are carried by...
03 November 2015 7,175 99 View
Hume stated that the main principle of Modern science and philosophy “is the opinion concerning colors, sounds, tastes, smells, heat and cold; which it asserts to be nothing but impressions of the...
09 December 2014 8,002 36 View
Human death is conceived as “the irreversible cessation of cardiopulmonary or neurological function”; “The irreversible loss of the brain’s ability to regulate the organism signals death, even if...
22 November 2014 6,652 11 View
In a 2005 book - now posted in Research Gate (see the link below) - the authors (led by Dr. Armando Freitas da Rocha) proposed an original model of quantum computing in the brain carried by...
12 August 2014 5,426 71 View
Kauffman (2010, see the link below) refers to a "poised realm" where quantum coherent states resume some of their characteristics at the macro level. Recently, the concept of recoherence has...
11 August 2014 2,708 71 View
The Hard Problem of Consciousness is based on the assumption that conscious contents are composed of subjective qualities experienced in the first-person perspective. The problem consists of...
18 July 2014 485 100 View
The role of astroglia in brain function has been well studied since the use of fluorescence microscopy (in vitro and in vivo two-photon imaging) began in the 1990's. Verkhratsky and Needergaard...
31 August 2013 2,149 37 View
This month the Baltimore Declaration (1) appeared, claiming that "We must be alert to any possibility that organoids could develop forms or aspects of consciousness and mitigate and safeguard...
01 January 1970 5,156 2 View
