The two major philosophical positions on the hard problem of consciousness are materialism and dualism. Dualists view mental and physical realms as distinct aspects of reality, while materialists ...

For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning neurons into thoughts. A growing cluster of theories now flips that script, ...

(Deshmukh VD. Consciousness, Awareness, and Presence: A Neurobiological Perspective. Int J Yoga. 2022 May-Aug;15 (2):144-149. doi: 10.4103/ijoy.ijoy_77_22. Epub 2022 Sep 5. PMID: 36329768; PMCID: ...

AI became powerful because of interacting mechanisms: neural networks, backpropagation and reinforcement learning, attention, ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).

This study is led by Prof. Jiang Zhang (School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University and Swarma Research). He has been pursuing the essence behind the emergent phenomena in complex systems.

It doesn't matter what you think about me as a narrator, you can check it. "I think therefor I am" has not held water over the years. The glaring hole in it being that it assumes the conclusion. Click ...