Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

Biological psychology seeks to explain how physiological systems underpin behaviour, cognition and emotion. It unites principles from neuroanatomy, neurochemistry and endocrinology with psychological ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...