A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Can We See the Real Nature of Consciousness from Outside? Can we understand consciousness by describing the various metaphysical positions: dualism, materialism, identity theory, functionalism, ...

In the waking state, a person's consciousness is continuously filled with sensations, memories, and reflections. However, ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...

This paper concerns the role that reference to subjects of experience can play in individuating streams of consciousness, and the relationship between the subjective and the objective structure of ...

Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts, known as conscious perception. The brain is constantly ...