A group photo from the original meeting in March 2018 at the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA, that kicked off the set of adversarial collaborations. IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when ...

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

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Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

Does a multicultural nation have a greater variety of biochemical interactions between its citizen’s minds and the one super conscious mind? I was attracted to the title of the book, Dark Light ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?