As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the evidence to know whether machines ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

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 ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

Consciousness is one of those mysteries we usually chalk up to philosophy or late-night thought experiments but scientists ...

The distinction between the “perceptual self” and “narrative self” points the way for future research on consciousness and the brain. The central puzzle regarding consciousness and the brain is: How ...

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been ...

Scientists have long been trying to understand human consciousness—the subjective "stuff" of thoughts and sensations inside our minds. There used to be an assumption that consciousness is produced by ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...