If you think philosophy is all about chin-stroking and the polite exchange of ideas then you haven’t been on Twitter lately. The social media platform, known for accentuating echo chambers, has ...

Panpsychism is a philosophical theory that holds that all things, including living things and even inanimate objects such as the chair you are sitting on, have a mind or mind-like properties.

Do inanimate objects have a mental life? Probably not, but the question isn’t quite as absurd as it sounds. Consciousness has been famously dubbed the “hard problem” of neuroscience (as opposed to the ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

Scientists have started to wonder if the universe is conscious. Panpsychism is a theory that suggests that everything is conscious. Biological and physics experiments are being performed to verify ...

The last decade or so has been a golden age for the philosophy of mind as well as the scientific study of the mind and brain. The major new development in this time frame has been a growing acceptance ...

Where does consciousness come from? The traditional view, believed by the 6 billion people in the world who belong to religions that assume life after death, is that humans consists of two different ...