Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional process.” ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

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

For cardiac arrest patients who subsequently undergo PCI, their degree of consciousness before the procedure is a strong predictor of in-hospital outcomes, according to observational data from ...

Researchers often study nonhuman abilities by assuming their subjects form representations about perceived stimuli and then process such information; why then would consciousness be required, and, if ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...