Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Efforts to find the bases for our conscious experiences are normally divided into two general categories: the easy problem and the hard problem. The easy problem is concerned with various electrical ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the origins of thought has long pitted two schools against each other. On ...

Mehr explores the research and creation of lab grown 'brain organoids', as well as the significance and ethicality of such experiments.