Thus far, most hypotheses on the evolutionary origin of sleep only addressed the probable
origin of its main states, REM and NREM. Our article presents the origin of the whole …

The ability to assess the level of unconsciousness (insensibility) in poultry is important on
farms and in abattoirs, where the effectiveness of stunning and slaughter needs to be …

We explore three methods for measuring the conscious status of knowledge using the
artificial grammar learning paradigm. We show wagering is no more sensitive to conscious …

One of the key problems the field of Machine Consciousness (MC) is currently facing is the
need to accurately assess the potential level of consciousness that an artificial agent might …

A simple (and, alas, oversimplified) history of working memory models helps to lend
perspective to the present endeavor. George Miller (1956) is generally credited with kicking …

The growing interests in propofol as an intravenous anesthetic agent and in particular to its
use in rabbits were the motivation for this work. The rabbit is the third most common pet, and …

Farming and laboratory industries face questions about whether to breed animals with
altered capacities for pleasure and pain. This paper addresses this issue from different …

Este artículo está dividido en dos partes: en (I) expongo las líneas generales de la lectura
rortiana de Descartes, centrada en su papel de inventor de la mente como un espacio …

Mental causation is a philosophical concept attempting to describe the causal effect of the
immaterial mind on subjects behavior. Various types of causality have different …

Can machines ever have qualia? Can we build robots with inner worlds of subjective
experience? Will qualia experienced by robots be comparable to subjective human …