A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.
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Are AIs conscious? One researcher says we may never know
Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in eerily fluent prose, yet the most unsettling ...
New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.
Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...
According to a new study, scene changes diminish a spectator's blink rate, producing an increase in attention. The results of the study demonstrate that a dynamic and chaotic audiovisual editing ...
Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...
During our waking hours, the brain is receiving a near-constant influx of sensory signals of various strengths. For decades, scientists have wondered why some signals rise to the light of conscious ...
When you memorize something, the brain creates a nerve-impulse code to create a representation of the information in the brain, and this code can get stored in memory. Upon retrieval, the code is ...
Assessing awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs) is difficult, as clinicians cannot rely on explicit reports. Using a simple classical conditioning paradigm, Bekinschtein et al.
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