Tyndall was an early supporter of the idea that matter can be conscious.
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The experience of subjective awareness may have evolved to enable the communication of privately experienced ideas and feelings.
Some blind people seem to be able to see without being conscious of it.
We worry about AI developing consciousness, but brain organoids may be more likely to do so.
About half of us will experience at least one lucid dream in our lives, where we are aware and may be able to take control of it. What can this tell us about consciousness?
In the second instalment of Biology and Blame, Neil Levy considers how neuroscience can affect legal judgements. Can human beings still be held responsible in the age of neuroscience? Some people say no…
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