Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

Consciousness is one of the most complicated and complex notions. Complicated because it is difficult to understand, and complex because it encompasses several intertwined elements, making it hard to ...

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

A new book, which I co-authored, explains 50 key ideas in psychology in 30 seconds each 30-Second Psychology is a new book that explains 50 key ideas in psychology in half a minute each. The book was ...

This post was co-authored with Ralph Weir, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

Whenever I read Darwinians and atheists, I find myself in agreement with their arguments. As Galileo liked to quote, the role of religion should be to determine how to go to heaven and not how the ...

Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is ...

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