After writing a book, what if the author wonders if he knows less than when he began his research? Apparently this happens when the subject of the book is consciousness. The book is “A World Appears: ...

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes that the link between brain and body is the key to understanding consciousness. In his latest book, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, he explains why.

New book from Oaklea Connects the AI Consciousness Debate to the “central mystery of mind” & cites evidence consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of reality This is not a rejection of science.

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...

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LAST month, two new books on consciousness added to the growing pile of literature on this contentious and difficult subject. One claims to give us a “new view of what makes us who we are”; the other ...

A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. Science routinely puts ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

In The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience, 1 psychiatrist-neurologist Todd Feinberg and evolutionary biologist Jon Mallatt argue that an understanding of evolutionary ...