Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

In the waking state, a person's consciousness is continuously filled with sensations, memories, and reflections. However, ...

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 ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

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In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published today in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would, after all, be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious — meaning ...

The prevailing consensus in neuroscience is that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and its metabolism. When the brain dies, the mind and consciousness of the being to whom that brain ...