Consciousness typically lags behind the brain’s “initial electrical activation” by around 200-300ms. This implies that some higher order computation takes place to enable conscious access and to bridge the gap between brain activation and awareness. The gap is demonstrated by a range of experiments, my favorite of which is Libet’s...
It is likely that installing a shrimp stunner reduces global suffering as much as making the carts in a single Walmart less squeaky for 20 minutes a year. Or perhaps not at all. Open Philanthropy has handed $2 million to the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP), primarily to promote electrical stunning...
My aim in this article is to examine the field of consciousness research with an analysis of 78 of the most important papers in the field. In doing so, I compare the empirical foundations these disciplines rely upon and detail how each approaches the measurement of conscious experience.