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 ...

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 ...

“This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, reflecting on a problem about the building blocks of reality that has dogged physics for ...

Sitting on the Marine Atlantic ferry, I’m watching the Newfoundland skyline disappear on the horizon as I type away. I see the rocking of the ocean waves, inhale its salty breeze, feel and hear the ...

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 ...

Are you prepared to kill and eat a creature that feels pain and fear, expresses joy and happiness, and has an emotional life – in other words, is sentient and conscious? If so, it’s best not to read a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Probably for as long as humans have been able to grasp the concept of consciousness, they have ...