Tag: Bobby Azarian

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 26, 2024

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Evolution, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy of Mind

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Bobby Azarian, Psilocybin}

At Big Think: Getting Stoned Shaped the Modern Mind

_{Cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian sees human civilization forming something like “the brain of Gaia” in a cosmos that is becoming increasingly conscious} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2024

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Evolution, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy of Mind}

We learn nothing specific here about how our remote ancestors thought but we have learned something useful: Big Think sees this as cutting edge science.

Neuroscientist: The Mind Is More Than a Machine — or Is It?

_{Bobby Azarian hopes that self-organization theory can account for consciousness and possibly enable sentient, conscious computers} _{News
June 12, 2022

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

One problem with materialist models of the mind — machine-like or not — is that they don’t account for people who have selves despite serious brain gaps.