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

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

What is the fundamental nature of reality? What is the true essence of human consciousness? These questions will take center stage at the Nature of Reality Seminar, a major interdisciplinary gathering ...

When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

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When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel.

From Aha! moments to scientific discovery, learn how altered states can open cognitive space for new ideas—and why that ...