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Out of our heads

It ain't in the head: Jerry Fodor reviews Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts by Michael Tye. A review of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noe. A review of Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith. Timewarp: A look at how your brain creates the fourth dimension. An article on how brain scanners can tell what you're thinking about. Here are 5 horrific ways your brain can turn on you without warning. Ghost in the Shell: Why our brains will never live in the Matrix. How much power does the human brain require to operate? A study suggests consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi, resolving competing requests. Scientists have finally woken from their slumber: armed with a flood of new discoveries from the neurosciences, they have been able to provide several competing models of consciousness. The holy grail of the unconscious: What the unearthing of Carl Jung’s Red book is doing to the Jungs and the Jungians (and maybe your dreams). A "complex" theory of consciousness: Is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness? When does consciousness arise in human babies — does sentience appear in the womb, at birth or during early childhood? Ray Tallis argues that there is no evolutionary explanation of consciousness. An interview with John Bargh on unconscious mechanisms that underlie social perception, evaluation and preferences. A new study raises the question of whether being honest is a conscious decision at all.