Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

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

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

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

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

When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

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

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

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 ...

Peter Carruthers, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, is an expert on the philosophy of mind who draws heavily on empirical psychology and ...