A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...
Here is the voice-over of this short essay, if you prefer to listen to it: Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal ...
Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool ...
The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...
What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...
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How aliens could be so much smarter than us
Alien civilizations may have millions of years of head start, enabling advanced technology, deeper intelligence, and expanded consciousness far beyond human limits, explaining how they could be vastly ...
Colin Klein receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Andrew Barron receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton ...
Re “What Is It Like to Be a Computer?,” by Barbara Gail Montero (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): Dr. Montero’s essay argues that artificial intelligence may one day become conscious. But I wonder if ...
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