In this Opinion article, we discuss how integrated information theory accounts for several aspects of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Integrated information theory starts from ...

The neuronal correlates of consciousness (NCC) are the minimum neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious experience. It is important to distinguish full NCC (the neural ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

“It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.” —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) We moderns take it for granted that consciousness is intimately tied up with the ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

The neuroscience of consciousness started with the Nobel Prize Laureate Francis Crick, who is notorious for having described the proper shape of our DNA — our genetic code [1]. Crick then predicted ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

IN A robotics lab on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, New York, three small humanoid robots have a conundrum to solve. They are told that two of them have been given a “dumbing pill” that stops ...