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Consciousness Theories
The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts; that's a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
These expert-recommended books try to answer the questions of consciousness, from its fundamental nature to its role in human experience and the natural world.
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.
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"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."
"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."
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"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn't actually quantum at all?
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
For the clarity of a “beginner’s mind” and a path to true and lasting wisdom, one must fully embrace "not-knowing."
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A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]