Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

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What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the origins of thought has long pitted two schools against each other. On one ...

New research warns scientists may be mistaking attention and calm for pure-awareness in the race to map consciousness itself.

The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...

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