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

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would, after all, be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious — meaning ...

Why do humans have consciousness? The arguments surrounding this question make it one of the most animated debates in contemporary philosophy. One reason why consciousness so vexes academic ...

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

My name is Forrest. And I have lived in Western North Carolina for a decade now. My personal journey on the path of conscious living began in 2013 on an inspiring trip to Maui, Hawaii. On that ...

A single psychedelic experience increased a range of non-physicalist beliefs, such as consciousness, meaning and purpose, researchers reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. “Guardrails against ...