16May 2026 by Post

What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, Experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T.S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, zoology
It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Source
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02Aug 2025 by Post

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

algorithms, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, brain processes, Brown University, cognitive science, computational mechanics, computationalism, computer science, computers, Epistemology, humans, Intellect, James F. Ross, John McCarthy, John Searle, Life Sciences, mind, modus tollens, Neuroscience & Mind, Pat Flynn, philosophy, Roderick Chisholm, Selmer Bringsjord, Thomas Aquinas, triangularity
A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Source
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04Jan 2023 by Post

Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn’t Evolve; It Creates Evolution

Big Bang, cognitive science, computer, computers, conscious realism, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Chalmers, desktop, Donald Hoffman, electronics, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, mind-body problem, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalists, pixels, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, science, University of California, Visual Intelligence, voltage
Donald Hoffman says that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental. Source
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09May 2020 by Post

Marks, Bringsjord: Confound Your Atheist Friends with Gödel’s “God Theorem”

Anselm, atheists, cognitive science, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, friends, God Theorem, Gulf Stream, Kurt Gödel, Mind Matters, Ontological Argument, Podcast, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Robert J. Marks, Social media, Walter Bradley Center
I recommend that you listen to a fascinating conversation over at Mind Matters. Robert J. Marks, who directs Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center, talks with cognitive scientist Selmer Bringsjord of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute about the unpublished “God Theorem” formulated by Kurt Gödel. You didn’t know that Gödel was a theist and that a proof of God’s existence was discovered among his papers when he died? Well here it is: So you can just go ahead and share that with your atheist friends — post it on social media! — and watch them squirm. I’m joking about that — but not about what an interesting podcast this is. Find it here at Mind Matters. Dr. Marks and Dr. Bringsjord also discuss Anselm’s ontological proof of God’s existence and Bringsjord gives as lucid and…
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