Consciousness
You can recognize a strawberry’s color and say “red.” How does that processing relate to the way red appears to you?
Begin with the relationship between physical processes and conscious experience.
Consciousness and sleep
Experience, dreams, and the roles of sleep: connected subjects with distinct questions and evidence.
Subjects: Conscious experience · Brain and cognition
Problems in this collection
4 problemsDreaming
A sleeping mind can build vivid worlds. Do those experiences perform a function, reflect other useful processes, or do both?
Explore experience during sleep and the unresolved roles of dreams.
Functions of sleep
Sleep is essential, but why do its benefits require a state in which an animal becomes less responsive to its surroundings?
Follow the wider question of what sleep does for an organism.
Binocular rivalry
When the eyes receive incompatible images, perception can alternate between them. How do eye and pattern competition produce those switches?