by Ralph Lewis | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorised
Cognition can be defined as the brain’s ability to build mental models of the world. Such capacity appears to be a crucial ingredient for the emergence of consciousness.
by Ralph Lewis | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorised
Cognition lacks a standard definition. A clearer understanding of it and its evolution in animals is key to unlocking the mystery of consciousness, with implications for AI.
by Ralph Lewis | Jan 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
“Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.
by Ralph Lewis | Sep 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Understanding emotions may be fundamental to understanding subjective experience. Unlike other forms of information processing, you can’t have a feeling without feeling it.
by Ralph Lewis | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorised
There are competing theories regarding the extent to which emotions are innate, hard-wired, and universal vs. constructed by high-level cognitive processes, experience, and culture.
by Ralph Lewis | Aug 22, 2024 | Uncategorised
Scientists disagree on whether the cerebral cortex—the more evolved part of the brain—is necessary for conscious emotional experience, and indeed for consciousness itself.
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