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

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

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

What is the nature of your reality? What if your consciousness, your subjective reality, does not bring you closer to the objective reality of our world? This is the question that Professor Donald ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...