Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s ...

The sheer fact we can conceive of higher dimensions than four within our mind, within our mathematics, is a gift… It’s ...

For example, the 7-bit computer code ASCII can ... I will discuss other kinds of information that appear to be related to consciousness. Several efforts to find better-defined measures of ...

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These three dimensions interact to produce our overall state of consciousness from moment to moment. For example, when wide awake, we are in a state of high awareness, but as we drift off to sleep ...

The outer experience, called phenomenal consciousness, is when we immediately realize what we’re experiencing—for example, seeing a total solar eclipse or the northern lights. The inner experience is ...

If it makes sense to separate out consciousness and behavioral functioning, then it also makes sense to “mix and match” them in weird ways. We could imagine, for example, color inverts ...

Two Theories Face Off to Explain the Origins of Consciousness Scientific American Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off.

The theory then translates these axioms into five corresponding “postulates” – properties which it claims are required for a physical system to embody consciousness. For example, IIT ...

For decades, there’s been a broad agreement among scientists that animals similar to us—the great apes, for example—may well have conscious experience, even if their consciousness differs ...

Quantum computers, for example, currently operate at around ... For this reason, the quantum consciousness theory has been dismissed outright by many scientists — though others are persuaded ...