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 …

Substantial progress has been made over the past two decades in detecting, predicting and
promoting recovery of consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) …

We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

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This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. IIT aims to account for the
properties of experience in physical (operational) terms. It identifies the essential properties …

Recent breakthroughs in neurobiology indicate that the time is ripe to understand how
cellular-level mechanisms are related to conscious experience. Here, we highlight the …

The history of science includes numerous challenging problems, including the “hard
problem”(1) of consciousness: Why does an assembly of neurons—no matter how complex …

The controversial question of whether machines may ever be conscious must be based on a
careful consideration of how consciousness arises in the only physical system that …

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …