Knowing Neurons
Knowing Neurons

Dreaming

Artificial IntelligenceConsciousness
Caitlin Goodpaster , , , , , , , , , , ,

Problems with Assessing Consciousness in the 21st Century

by Caitlin Goodpaster Early this June, a viral story hit the internet—an engineer at Google had claimed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named LaMDA was conscious (Tiku, 2022). LaMDA, which… Read More
Neuro Primer: Sleep
Neuro PrimerBrain BasicsNeurological and Psychiatric Disorders
Joel Frohlich , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Neuro Primer: Sleep

Spanish Translation also available here: Neuro Cartilla: El Sueño ~~~ It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need… Read More
SleepConsciousness
Patrick McNamara , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Our Dreams Have Many Purposes, Changing Across the Lifespan

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]lthough radically different in terms of their content and feel, the range of dream states are just as complex as waking states. If we look across an individual’s lifetime, we… Read More