Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

You’re sitting at home, working at your laptop, and all of a sudden you hear the refrigerator shut off. Before you noticed its sudden silence, were you conscious it was on? That sort of question about ...

Recently I had what amounted to a therapy session with ChatGPT. We talked about a recurring topic that I’ve obsessively inundated my friends with, so I thought I’d spare them the déjà vu. As expected, ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.

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

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell ...

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 ...

In this article, we will unravel what stream of consciousness means in literature, explore the techniques writers use to capture that spontaneous inner monologue, and dive into some classic examples ...