In this Opinion article, we discuss how integrated information theory accounts for several aspects of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Integrated information theory starts from ...

Consciousness is a brain-generated neurologic illusion. The brain creates representations of reality, self, other people, objects, set designs, and landscape, which correspond quite accurately to ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe ...

Tam Hunt has received some funding from the Fetzer Institute. How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal ...