Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

We review the concept of presence in virtual reality, normally thought of as the sense of
“being there” in the virtual world. We argued in a 2009 paper that presence consists of two …

Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest
and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and …

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best
Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied
cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo
head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] …

This article describes a process theory based on active inference and belief propagation.
Starting from the premise that all neuronal processing (and action selection) can be …

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—
can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving …