Building on Bringsjord's (1992, 1994) and Searle's (1992) work, I take it for granted that computational systems cannot be conscious. In order to discuss the possibility that they might be able to pass refined versions of the Turing Test, I consider three possible relationships between consciousness and control systems in human-level adaptive agents.

Background and Objective: Different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. We assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. Methods: In a cross-s...

Social phobics were compared to patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia and normal controls on perfectionism and self-consciousness. On concern over mistakes and doubts about action, social phobics scored higher than patients with panic disorder. Social phobics also demonstrated a higher level of public self-consciousness than patients with panic disorder and when this difference was cont...

Serum and urine bromide levels, serum morphine levels, and postoperative awakening times were observed in 24 patients; 16 undergoing cadaveric kidney transplantation under halothane anaesthesia, eight without preanaesthetic medication (Group A) and eight with morphine preanaesthetic medication (Group B), and eight patients (control) with normal kidney function scheduled for colon resection (Gro...

Lucia Rita Del Vecchio, MD, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy Roberto Torre, RN, ANS, Nurse Coordinator, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy (✉) Elhalabieh Elias Attalla, MD, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy Anna Federici, RN, ANS, Nurse Coordinator, Undergraduate School of Nursing, Viterbo, Italy Giuliano Bertazzon...

The near-death experience (NDE) raises important unanswered questions about the nature of human consciousness and relationships between consciousness, the brain and spacetime. Certain NDE features are probably explainable by neuroscience and probably take place in 4-dimensional space-time while apparently remarkable NDE features such as confirmed cases of veridical perception and other so-calle...

Following severe injuries that result in disorders of consciousness, recovery can occur over many months or years post-injury. While post-injury synaptogenesis, axonal sprouting and functional reorganization are known to occur, the network-level processes underlying recovery are poorly understood. Here, we test a network-level functional rerouting hypothesis in recovery of patients with disorde...

In the context of our ongoing search for the neuronal correlates of consciousness (Crick and Koch, 1998, 1999), I discuss Jackendoff’s „Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness“ as well as related work of others, that implies that we are not directly conscious of our thoughts. I apply this hypothesis to the visual system of the macaque monkey and discuss possible experimental tests.

Self-consciousness is an issue that is of fundamental theoretical significance in philosophy. It is at the root of many other philosophical issues ranging from epistemological questions (i.e., the problem of self-knowledge) to those that are metaphysical (i.e., the concept of a person or a "self") or moral (i.e., issues of moral agency or autonomy). In the philosophy of mind the problem of self...