Whenever I read Darwinians and atheists, I find myself in agreement with their arguments. As Galileo liked to quote, the role of religion should be to determine how to go to heaven and not how the ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

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For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the mystery of consciousness: the unique inner world that seems fundamental to human existence. Despite the long-standing challenge of finding a ...

Stream of Consciousness: Definition Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique in literature that attempts to capture the continuous, unfiltered flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, and ...

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 ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts excerpted from my book, The Four Realms of Existence. (Read posts one, two, three and four.) The key premise of the book is that everything about a human being, ...

Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious. David Chalmers was not expecting the invitation he received in September of last ...