IIT doesn’t ask how matter gives rise to consciousness — rather, it takes as a given certain attributes of consciousness, and asks what kinds of physical systems would be needed to support them.

November 8, 2019 by Dan Falk - Undark Magazine At the moment, you’re reading these words and, presumably, thinking about what the words and sentences mean. Or perhaps your mind has wandered, and ...

Consciousness all the way down If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic purpose.

In “Self Comes to Mind,” the eminent neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio gives an account of consciousness that might come naturally to a highly caffeinated professor in his study ...

While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

Jorie Graham’s new book, an omnibus volume of her last four collections, shows that some themes have been present in her career from the start.

Instead, the book is a rather wandering and digressive restatement, with some minor variations, of Damasio’s earlier views on consciousness.

Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind? What would Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, a very friendly robot, plus a bevy of scientists, mystics, and wannabe scholars do at a fancy resort in Arizona? Perhaps ...

Three decades after being awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of DNA, Francis Crick wrote a book about consciousness, “The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.” It ...

I agree with Horgan’s claim that there are many problems associated with the concept of consciousness. I am working on a book on how to define behavior, mind, and consciousness. I argue these ...