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 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 ...

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

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...

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

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

A physicist argues consciousness may connect to higher dimensions, challenging long-held ideas about the mind and reality.

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite institutions have his back as he explores DMT “entities,” near-death experiences ...

Calling consciousness an "entropic engine" points to something psychologically obvious: selfhood costs energy. Maintaining a stable "me" model across time, contexts, and internal contradictions ...

In this video, we explore various aspects of artificial intelligence and consciousness, discussing: - AI in science fiction ...