Quantum physics didn’t set out to explain the mind. It set out to explain matter. And yet, the deeper scientists went into ...

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How do you design buildings for machines colder than deep space? David Clensy explores the engineering, sustainability, and ...

Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...

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

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like pleasure and pain act as a "common currency" for decision-making, as we see in ...

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

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first clear evidence that visual awareness acts as a "conductor" that refines the ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...