A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few
principles (rather than an encyclopaedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we …

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 …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice,
jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to …

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 …

There have been a number of advances in the search for the neural correlates of
consciousness—the minimum neural mechanisms sufficient for any one specific conscious …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

For half a century, the human brain was believed to contain about 100 billion neurons and
one trillion glial cells, with a glia: neuron ratio of 10: 1. A new counting method, the isotropic …

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 …

Emotional states of consciousness, or what are typically called emotional feelings, are
traditionally viewed as being innately programmed in subcortical areas of the brain, and are …