Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...

And the role of memory (see, for example, Joseph LeDoux’s extension of Endel Tulving’s theory of memory to theories of consciousness, in my post Emotions Are Key to Understanding Consciousness ...

A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining the future depends on much of the same neural machinery that is needed for remembering the past. These findings have led to the ...

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Altogether, this idea corresponds well with Tulving’s idea of “autonoetic consciousness,” which is claimed to be selective to the human kind and which enables mentally traveling into the past and the ...

One fundamental feature of consciousness is that the contents of consciousness depend on the state of consciousness. Here, we propose an answer to why this is so: both the state and the contents of ...