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

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

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 ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

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

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

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

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

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 ...

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