In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published today in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at ...
For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...
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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 ...
This post invites you to consider your consciousness consisting of four different domains. The first domain is the one that I am engaged with now. The talking part of your mind is reading this and ...
The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...