We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

This post was co-authored with Ralph Weir, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever. Researchers writing in Frontiers in Science warn that advances ...

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