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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 6. Inertia in the advancement of knowledge
Illustration by ChatGPT Why did a theory that was later proven correct go unnoticed, even though it had been published in a reputable journal (L’Homme) and its accurate summary remained unchanged on an English Wikipedia page for more than twenty years? P.J.: My Wikipedia entry mentions the following since 2002: Memory and consciousness In…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 5. How consciousness constructs a meaningful present moment
Illustration by ChatGPT First step in the synthesis: showing precisely how the various elements of the mechanism postulated by my theory anticipated discoveries that would later be made by neuroscience. P.J.: In an article published in 1999 (The Chinese Room’s Secret) I wrote the following: “The retrospective assignation effect was only experimentally corroborated by Libet…