Tag: Integrated information theory
The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong
He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres.
Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness
Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped.
Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought?
Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness
Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain.
Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development.