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What Actually Are Emotions?

What Actually Are Emotions?

by Ralph Lewis | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorised

We are intimately familiar with them but defining them is harder than it seems. Understanding how emotions give rise to subjective feelings is key to understanding consciousness.
Moral Courage as the Antidote to Moral Injury

Moral Courage as the Antidote to Moral Injury

by Ralph Lewis | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorised

For some journalists, ignoring the crimes of corrupt or genocidal politicians, human traffickers, and drug cartels is worse than facing the repercussions of exposing such crimes.
The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate

The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate

by Ralph Lewis | Feb 10, 2024 | Uncategorised

Can we choose the experiences that shape us, or are those choices determined?
Do We Have Free Will? How the Brain Makes Decisions

Do We Have Free Will? How the Brain Makes Decisions

by Ralph Lewis | Feb 10, 2024 | Uncategorised

As brains evolved in complexity, they acquired top-down control systems, such that bottom-up inputs cannot completely predict behavioral outputs. Does this mean we have free-will?
The Predictive Brain and the ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness

The Predictive Brain and the ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness

by Ralph Lewis | Nov 25, 2023 | Uncategorised

Predictive processing theories are unlocking deep mysteries of the mind. Solving the hard problem of consciousness will require a multifaceted approach and an evolutionary lens.
An Intriguing and Controversial Theory of Consciousness: IIT

An Intriguing and Controversial Theory of Consciousness: IIT

by Ralph Lewis | Oct 28, 2023 | Uncategorised

Here’s how to understand integrated information theory (IIT). The consciousness theory is popular among (if barely understood by) the media but has polarized scientists.
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