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

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

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

Have you ever felt that reality is deeper than what meets the eye? That perhaps our everyday experience is just the surface ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

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