Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...
An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five major theories of ...
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...
What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...
A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...
Last week, an article in Nature by Mariana Lenharo summarized the “wars” that have broken out in the field of consciousness studies. The main event was a bomb that was dropped last September, when ...
Other adversarial studies on consciousness are ongoing. Seth, for example, is on the steering committee of an adversarial collaboration looking at IIT and two other theories of consciousness. This ...
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form ...
The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.
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