Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness ...

The debate over the source of human consciousness has persisted for thousands of years, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. While we have made huge advancements in neuroscience in recent years, our ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...

Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness ...

Tim Bayne is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a widely discussed—and, by some, strongly promoted —“mathematical theory of consciousness” developed over the past 10-20 years or so, mainly by neuroscientist ...

Key points As currently formulated, integrated information theory (IIT) is not well-defined and is not a plausible "theory of consciousness." ITT does, however, properly emphasize the apparent ...