Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a
considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how …

How can single cells without nervous systems perform complex behaviours such as
habituation, associative learning and decision making, which are considered the hallmark of …

The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that
could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent …

This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to
educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the …

For many philosophers, the rational cognitive (Cartesian) subject defines the human, or at
least defines what humans should be. Yet some recent cognitive science, as well as the …

The paper presents a research programme for the neuroscience of consciousness called'
neurophenomenology'(Varela 1996) and illustrates it with a recent pilot study (Lutz et al …

This paper is a practical guide to neurophenomenology. Varela's neurophenomenological
research program (NRP) aspires to bridge the gap between, and integrate, first-person (1P) …

The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the
understanding that thermodynamically-open systems must regulate environmental …

We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective
Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of …

Large populations of interacting active elements, periodic or chaotic, can undergo
spontaneous transitions to dynamically ordered states. These collective states are …