In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

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

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

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

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

It is a new year with new possibilities and new aspirations. It is also time for us as educators to reset, prioritize and set ...