The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.

Conscious experience is central to human life, yet the processes underlying its emergence remain among the most debated questions in behavioral ...

Under the influence of psychedelics, many report that plants seem to be alive. Is it wrong to assume we’re the only sentient ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They urge us to revolutionize or abandon physics itself to accommodate ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts excerpted from my book, The Four Realms of Existence. (Read posts one, two, three and four.) The key premise of the book is that everything about a human being, ...

"I'm writing because your work addresses questions I actually face, not just as an academic matter." The post Philosopher ...