From a special in New Scientist This is a version of a thought experiment favoured by philosophers, first described with reference to …
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, …
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Renowned and reputable scientists such as Eugene Wigner, John Bell, and later Roger Penrose, began to consider the idea that consciousness could …
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. It asserted that: Convergent evidence indicates that nonhuman animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological substrates of …
This idea evolved in collaboration with anesthesiologist and psychologist Stuart Hameroff into a hypothesis called Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR). It claims …
In collaboration with Stanford University neuroscientist Karl H. Pribram, Bohm was involved in the early development of the holonomic model of the functioning of the brain, a …
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Carlo Rovelli at Aix-Marseille University in France doesn’t think the wave function is a real object. He has been working on an …
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We assume instead that subjects and experiences are entities beyond spacetime, not within spacetime. We make this precise in a mathematical theory …
Trade determinism for non-locality and hidden variables, but non-locality is already a part of quantum mechanics (entanglement). The pilot-wave theory, however, requires …
Just think, that piece of gold on your finger—every bit of it started off in a cosmic cataclysm that is among the …
In a 2021 study, Cullenward and his colleagues found that California’s offsets programme systematically over-credits the carbon-absorbing potential of its offset properties by nearly …
“Memory reconsolidation” describes how, when we recall a memory, it can become pliable. There is hope—and some intriguing early data—that, at the …
“We don’t really know why the system came up with this, essentially,” he says. “Why is it the best way of multiplying …