Mind and Brain: Consciousness in Unresponsive Subjects
Summary A new study shows that subjects rendered unresponsive with sedatives do not exhibit a stereotypic ‘unconscious' response to direct cortical stimulation; instead, agent-specific effects are seen that can distinguish between unresponsiveness with and without consciousness.
Work on minimal cognition raises a variety of questions concerning the boundaries of cognition. Many discussions of minimal cognition assume that the domain of minimal cognition is a subset of the ...