Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not ...

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 is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

Consciousness is what makes us humans. Consciousness gives us the understanding of, as well as the freedom from, the more rigid aspects of linear thinking. It gives us the intuition to navigate ...

We have a right to be in serious conversations about policy, and we have a right to advocate for policy based on the values ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights today issued a final conscience rule that protects individuals and healthcare entities from discrimination on the basis of ...

Defining consciousness is a task that scientists and philosophers have never been really able to do. Recently, European researchers took an engineering approach to this problem in designing BabyBot, a ...

Are you wound up? Worked up? Burnt out? Are you tired of being tired? Do you have outrage fatigue from whatever political scandal is dominating today’s headlines? Believe it or not, we weren’t born ...