scholarly journals The Electric Consciousness Hypothesis and The Prediction of Consciousness Neuron

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqi Wang

What makes us assume that our brain generates consciousness? Has there been an experiment to prove it? This article suggests another way to explore consciousness. It is that consciousness may be fundamental instead of being generated. This article proposes a testable hypothesis to explain how consciousness, as a fundamental force, cooperates with the neurons in our brain. And explain how this hypothesis can solve the problems, including how free will works in a biological machine, how emotion and memory work, even what will happen after you die, etc. Of course, we should be able to answer the death question after understanding the mechanism of consciousness.

Author(s):  
Saurabh K. Singh ◽  
Shashi Shekhar Jha ◽  
Shivashankar B. Nair

Emotion and memory have been two intermingled areas in psychological research. Although researchers are still fairly clueless on how human emotions or memory work, several attempts have been made to copy the dynamics of these two entities in the realm of robotics. This chapter describes one such attempt to capture the dynamics of human emotional memories and model the same for use in a real robot. Emotional memories are created at extreme emotional states, namely, very positive or happy events or very negative ones. The positive ones result in the formation of positive memories while the negative ones form the negative counterparts. The robotic system seeks the positive ones while it tries to avoid the negative ones. Such memories aid the system in making the right decisions, especially when situations similar to the one which caused their generation, repeat in the future. This chapter introduces the manner in which a multi-agent emotion engine churns out the emotions which in turn generate emotional memories. Results obtained from simulations and those from using a real situated robot described herein, validate the working of these memories.


Erkenntnis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Northcott

2016 ◽  
pp. 1652-1689
Author(s):  
Saurabh K. Singh ◽  
Shashi Shekhar Jha ◽  
Shivashankar B. Nair

Emotion and memory have been two intermingled areas in psychological research. Although researchers are still fairly clueless on how human emotions or memory work, several attempts have been made to copy the dynamics of these two entities in the realm of robotics. This chapter describes one such attempt to capture the dynamics of human emotional memories and model the same for use in a real robot. Emotional memories are created at extreme emotional states, namely, very positive or happy events or very negative ones. The positive ones result in the formation of positive memories while the negative ones form the negative counterparts. The robotic system seeks the positive ones while it tries to avoid the negative ones. Such memories aid the system in making the right decisions, especially when situations similar to the one which caused their generation, repeat in the future. This chapter introduces the manner in which a multi-agent emotion engine churns out the emotions which in turn generate emotional memories. Results obtained from simulations and those from using a real situated robot described herein, validate the working of these memories.


2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sacchi ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Marco Brambilla

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.


1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Sappington
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PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Boag
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2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
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2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Suzuki ◽  
Koji Tsuchiya ◽  
Makoto Suzuki
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2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rigoni ◽  
M. Brass ◽  
B. Burle
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